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Question about a friend of mine from church. In my opinion, she has astute vocabulary, but she claims her vocabulary is "stunted." So maybe you guys who are highly skilled with words can judge for me if she is really good or not. I have my examples below in our past conversations. Let me know if you think this is considered good, intermediate, or just perfect for her age (she is 47). It might be that I am just exagerrating her skill, with me being just 28, since people who lived longer than you are likely to relatively be more skillfull due to them having more experiences. So look at these examples. I placed her words or phrases under a quotation mark ( " " ).
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1.) I asked her one time about her long-term disability she's had and how long in her history she's been affected by it. She told me that she didn't have it in high school, but in college is where "at the onset" of it happened. And that it wasn't until later in her college years when it had its "full-blown episode." And she added that later she "deferred" from college for a while.
2.) We were talking about the economic recession from back in 2008 and she mentioned the mortgage problems, saying that the mortgage "ballooned" up.
3.) Our subject was on a scene of a movie we saw with some friends of ours. There was a scene of a gang that got apprehended by the cops, and one of them who was not really active in the criminal activity got arrested anyway. She said that they will realize he wasn't really an "accessory," he just happened to be in the car.
4.) She was sharing one time how this man sitting behind her in an event was making lots of noises, and the noise "addled" her brain and gave her headache.
5.)We were talking about the Occupy protests as of late in the news. She said those protesters were having "ad-hoc" conversations.
6.) At a get-together one time, she said she was getting "pampered" because of the good weather.
7.) A friend of ours on Facebook posted a status asking what people think of the Palestine rivalry with Israel. She mentioned three words of what the new generation is getting into, one of them was "pluralistic." And in dealing with the censorship, she said the new generation is getting tired of the "repression" coming from dictatorial leaders.
8.) Recently at an event, I heard her sharing her experience with a friend of ours about her trip to the Monterey Bay Aquarium (we live in Cali), and she talked about the historical figures with the "dignitaries" presented there.
9.) A friend of ours one time asked her about her thoughts on the tea-party, and she said something about Washington being a "culture unto itself" and another thing about the "grassroots" level which i forgot the details of.
10.) When i asked her about current thoughts on President Obama, she said that he is too compromising and "deliberating too much on things", and "capitulating to the Republicans"
Question about a friend of mine from church. In my opinion, she has astute vocabulary, but she claims her vocabulary is "stunted." So maybe you guys who are highly skilled with words can judge for me if she is really good or not. I have my examples below in our past conversations. Let me know if you think this is considered good, intermediate, or just perfect for her age (she is 47). It might be that I am just exagerrating her skill, with me being just 28, since people who lived longer than you are likely to relatively be more skillfull due to them having more experiences. So look at these examples. I placed her words or phrases under a quotation mark ( " " ).
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1.) I asked her one time about her long-term disability she's had and how long in her history she's been affected by it. She told me that she didn't have it in high school, but in college is where "at the onset" of it happened. And that it wasn't until later in her college years when it had its "full-blown episode." And she added that later she "deferred" from college for a while.
2.) We were talking about the economic recession from back in 2008 and she mentioned the mortgage problems, saying that the mortgage "ballooned" up.
3.) Our subject was on a scene of a movie we saw with some friends of ours. There was a scene of a gang that got apprehended by the cops, and one of them who was not really active in the criminal activity got arrested anyway. She said that they will realize he wasn't really an "accessory," he just happened to be in the car.
4.) She was sharing one time how this man sitting behind her in an event was making lots of noises, and the noise "addled" her brain and gave her headache.
5.)We were talking about the Occupy protests as of late in the news. She said those protesters were having "ad-hoc" conversations.
6.) At a get-together one time, she said she was getting "pampered" because of the good weather.
7.) A friend of ours on Facebook posted a status asking what people think of the Palestine rivalry with Israel. She mentioned three words of what the new generation is getting into, one of them was "pluralistic." And in dealing with the censorship, she said the new generation is getting tired of the "repression" coming from dictatorial leaders.
8.) Recently at an event, I heard her sharing her experience with a friend of ours about her trip to the Monterey Bay Aquarium (we live in Cali), and she talked about the historical figures with the "dignitaries" presented there.
9.) A friend of ours one time asked her about her thoughts on the tea-party, and she said something about Washington being a "culture unto itself" and another thing about the "grassroots" level which i forgot the details of.
10.) When i asked her about current thoughts on President Obama, she said that he is too compromising and "deliberating too much on things", and "capitulating to the Republicans"
