2014-07-16 Communication: romance & Shakespeare

p. 29: words from French
1 faux pas - a social mistake
2 deja vu - a feeling that you've experienced something before
3 avant-garde - cutting-edge/experimental
4 entrepreneur - someone who starts their own business
5 cliche - an action or expression that has been repeated so many times that it loses some meaning (movie tropes)
6 bouquet
7 fiance / fiancee - the man/woman you're going to marry

Avoid cliches like the plague.

1 Love is blind.
- Even if a relationship hurts you, you'll stay in it. We often ignore any problems if we feel love.
2 The course of true love never did run smooth.
- Relationships are hard.
3 All the world loves a lover.
- Everyone will like you if you're a loving person.
4 Cold hands warm heart.
- People with physically cold hands are kind and loving inside.
5 All's fair in love and war.
- It's "okay" to do something wrong or tricky if it's for love (or for war).
6 The way to a man's heart is through his stomach.
- To get a man to love you, give him good food.
(The way to a man's heart is directly through the ribcage.)
7 Marry in haste, repent at leisure.
- If you get married in a hurry, you'll have a whole lifetime to deal with it.
8 Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
- Even if you lost your love, it's good that you had the experience.
9 A little of what you fancy does you good.
- It's good to have a little of the things you like/want.
10 Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
- If you spend time away from someone, you'll love them more.
11 Familiarity breeds contempt.
- If you spend all your time around someone or something, you will begin to hate it.

2 A little of what you fancy does you good.
3 The way to a man's heart is through his stomach.
4 Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
5 Love is blind.

Do you like him, or do you *like* like him? (contrastive reduplication)
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Sonnet 18 - William Shakespeare

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? 		(all 3 fit the poem)
Thou art more lovely and more temperate: 		(or 'stunning')
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, 		(soft)
And summer's lease hath all too short a date: 		(all 3 fit)
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, 		(3 fit)
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;  		(only this fits)
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade 			(only 'fade' rhymes)
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade, 	(boast)
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st; 		(only rhyme)
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, 		(3 fit)
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
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Homework:
find a love poem in your language (or at least 4 lines of one), which makes comparisons between the lover and other things (we'll discuss them tomorrow)