Hello Keplyn!
I was skimming through your post and this caught my eye:
"... the definition of frienship once again is: the state of being a friend; association as friends: to value a person’s friendship."
In this definition of friendship you use the root word (the word the other is derived from) and the word itself in the definitions. Is this the best way to define a word? Take this for example:
Ataraxia - the state of being ataraxic
Do you know what ataraxia really is from that definition? In the case of friendship we can assume that most people will know what a friend is so using friend in the definition is probably okay. But try to define friendship without using friend or any of it's other forms. It's a bit harder but would be clearer to anyone who doesn't know what friendship or friends are (even though those people may be few and far between).
P.S. Look up ataraxia, a bigger vocabulary never hurts
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Keplyn
Second mentoring post, can see a problem in the future, lack of ideas pertaining to a small set of subjects... will have to be creative. You can see the comment here.
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Hi GreyM,
What wonderful comments you've left for Hannah and Keplyn!! The questions you ask Keplyn to help in understanding that words are best defined using other terms are excellent!!
You mention a concern about lack of ideas (I can really relate to that) and I wondered if you thought it might be useful to try to tie questions into the graphics chosen for the posts? or if using a quote about their topic and asking how they think it might apply to what they've been reading (WisdomQuotes often helps me although I'm sure you know others; this link goes to their friendship page) might work?
Bravo to you for taking on this project!!
Best,
Lani
BTW, I did look up ataraxic and increased my vocabulary! Thank you!
Thx Lani! The quotes idea is brilliant. Think I'll keep that in storage for when I'm really stumped.
ciao,
Graeme
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