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that actually work. The trick is to give each one his say. Let the poet go first. Be loose. Be wild. Then let the CPA come in, take measurements, and see what actually works. I sense that I’m about to run this metaphor into the ground, so I’ll just bow out here by saying, go back and forth between wild dorm-room creativity and critical dad’sbasement analysis, always keeping your strategy statement in mind. See if you can avoid doing the old “exaggeration” thing. Sometimes I think there’s this

convention or rule of English 57 that it is the one rather than the other; in other languages it would have quite different names. The cases we think of as exceptions are ‘onomatopoeic’ words, where the sound seems to imitate what it represents, like bow-wow, or buzz. But these differ from one language to another: in French dogs say ‘oua-oua’ and buzz is bourdonner. Even more important, for Saussure and recent theory, is the second aspect of the arbitrary nature of the sign: both the signifier (form) and

thrilled and couldn’t wait to get down to Borders as soon as the books were in stock. Sure enough, on walking into the computer section, there I saw my books: stacked high on the end of every shelf, and covering numerous tables dotted around the shop. Wow! They must really love the books if they were piling them so high around the shop. It was only months later that I discovered the truth: books are ................. * Idiot. 15 B R I N G I N G N O T H I N G T O T H E PA R T Y usually distributed

because he was the youngest person to cross the ocean alone and that’s terrific, isn’t it? He left Tenerife and reached Antigua 24 days later. He recalled his most fantastic moments were when he saw dolphins and whales swimming near his little boat. Wow! But he also remembered that worst day when the weather was bad and his mast nearly broke; he spent 20 long and anxious hours repairing. Gosh, that must have been awful! During the whole crossing, he would dream of sleeping in a real bed and eating

register overnight. Tom and I can come in every day and admire the necklace, and Roberto will never know a thing." It was such a preposterous, underhanded proposal, such a devious, rawboned bit of chicanery that Tom and Marina both cracked up laughing. "Wow," Marina said. "You're one hell of a sneaky old man, Nathan." "Not as old as all that," I said. "And what happens if I forget I'm wearing the necklace?" she asked. "What happens if I go home one night and still have it on?" "You'd never do that," I

rapport, il y avait les autres juste derrière, je n’avais pas envie qu’elles m’entendent. – Allez, on y va. Ils démarrent et entrent dans le flux de la circula on nocturne. Une flopée de mp3 passe dans le lecteur. – Le meilleur qu’il y ait, poupée. Bow Wow + Chris Brown, Jim Jones, Fat Joe... – Que du hip-hop. – Bien sûr. Et encore, je ne te fais pas écouter les trucs mythiques, Sangue Misto, O erre et Colle der Fomento. Elle écoute et parle. Mais elle parle trop, comme quand on est mal à l’aise. Elle

people around are very noisy, they sound excited. Everybody seems to be speaking at the same time. • Mr Pringles looks like the logo/the icon on the packaging. He looks like a clown. • Mr Pringles is very fat, he is wearing red braces and a red bow tie and round glasses. He looks as if he were a famous actor, the conference is set in Hollywood. • We’re not sure but we think he apologised for driving. • Dans un deuxième temps, travailler en binômes pour entraîner la mémoire à court terme