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"Belekezdtem Montgomery 'Anne - La maison aux pignons verts' ... sokát értek belőle csak neha szótáraztam" pg 231. Really?

The vignettes really expose the weakness of the analysis of "factual" and "conceptual" knowledge.

Well that's the "Between the Woods and the Water" section over, the "Banished Families" section can only be better, right?

"And all understand that this is God" pg 117. I can follow the argument until we jump from the first mover to Jehovah.

"It seems reasonable to assume that Conceptual knowledge CAN be developed via [analysis, evaluation, and creation]" pg 149 - how about MUST be developed via ...

"ugyanis az előttunk lévő sorban Ricsiék folyamatosan hülyüték" No surprises here, then

"it is only through self-development that finite things can imitate, as it were, the fullness of the divine actuality" pg 96.

"So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise" pg 240.

"még az ülő Jacques is elmormolt pár helyes franci káromkodást" pg 191. Half way through before the first cursing, albit in French.

"'Yet a gentleman may not keep a public house; may he?' said I. 'Not on any account,' returned Herbert; 'but a public-house may keep a gentleman...'" pg 203

"Na, és még azt mandják, a YouTube-on nem tanulunk semmit! Dehogynem." - Quite

'Which, you see, Pip' said Joe, pausing in his meditative raking of the fire, and looking at me, 'were a drawback on my learning'.

Wittgenstein stated that 'Not HOW the world is, is the mystical, but THAT it is'. If the word 'metaphysical' is substituted for the word 'mystical', this statement ... can serve as an ilustration of the difference between ... Aristotle and Aquinas"

pg 154, Reni is reading 'Emma' when she cracks on about "a zavarba ejtően kék szem" I wondered whether she understood a word of Emma. Anna suggested that Laura Leiner was just name dropping.

"what Mrs Marchado did to Jack qualified as "abuse"" and what about what Emma Oastler did to Jack?

ODG, 100 pages of kiddie sex, I'm surprised they didn't take this off the shelves in the UK. I must have missed the bit in Great Expectations where Miss Haversham and Estelle flashed their parts at Pip.

SzJG - it's just one day after another, never needed an őszi szünet as much as I do now.

"in the manner of Dickens" that is 670 pages, James Wood should be pleased.

"Nobody knows how we learn language." pg 229 Is this specific to languages, or could it be more generally said nobody knows how we learn anything?

"And they were still coming across on Flag Day". Wildly inacurate, but why haven't I read about the effect the Russians leaving Austria had on the events of 1956?

"Úgy gondoltuk, hogy ha megbízzuk egy társadat, hogy korrepetáljön és buzdítson..." (pg 135) At least there's been a plot development, even if seems a little implausible, unprofessional and even immoral for a teacher to do this.

His first novel - never trust a hippy.

Interesting - it seems Nationalism was alive alive and well even when it was buried under Communism.

"A tonic is dislocated if it is not where the rules of neutral tonic-placement would placement". Yes, well, this rule and all exceptions/subrules can be replaced with the principle that English tries to place the tonic on the new information provided in the utterance.

"Hpwever, advanced learners (as well as native speakers) are generally able to place the stress correctly on words they have never prononced before. Obviously they possess some knowledge which enables them to do so" pg 210. As I native speaker I suggest this knowledge is not of rules.

So far journalistic in both style and structure and not critical of its sources - largely secondary. There have been nuggets of new information though - the role of writers in undermining the regime.

"English word stress has many rules, subrules and exceptions" pg 210. I disagree, how about English has a regular stress pattern that its speakers try to impose on it, this is most obviously seen in the weak and stong forms of the most commonly used words. However, collocation both of words and syllables create constrains the imposing of this patterns. The most successful imposition of this pattern is called poetry.