51吃瓜 of the Day
Bildungsroman
noun
a type of novel concerned with the education, development, and maturing of a young protagonist.
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Bildungsroman 鈥渁 novel concerned with the maturing of a young protagonist鈥� is a direct borrowing from German. The word comprises two nouns: Bildung 鈥渇ormation, education鈥� and Roman 鈥渘ovel.鈥� Despite its 鈥渇ormation鈥� sense, Bildung is not related to English building; rather, it derives from German Bild 鈥渋mage, picture,鈥� which is cognate to Old English bilithe 鈥渋mage,鈥� a term with no descendants in modern English. Roman derives via a long chain of semantic shifts from Latin 搁艒尘腻苍耻蝉 鈥渙f or relating to Rome.鈥� 搁艒尘腻苍耻蝉 yielded the adjective 搁艒尘腻苍颈肠耻蝉 鈥渋n the Roman style or pattern,鈥� and this became Old French romanz 鈥渟tory in the vernacular language鈥� and then French roman 鈥渘ovel,鈥� which German borrowed as Roman. English Roman preserves the original meaning of 搁艒尘腻苍耻蝉. Bildungsroman was first recorded in English in the first decade of the 1900s.
how is Bildungsroman used?
鈥淭he Chiffon Trenches鈥� has been sold as a juicy tell-all鈥�; revenge 鈥� in written form. It is that, kind of. But it is also a bildungsroman about an African-American boy from the Jim Crow South who made it to the front row of the Parisian fashion world by way of Interview, WWD, Ebony, Vanity Fair and, above all, Vogue.
Today, Latinx writers are writing their own versions of the bildungsroman, but with a twist. In novels like Angie Cruz鈥檚 Dominicana and Ernesto Qui帽onez鈥檚 罢补铆苍补, protagonists are educated not once, but twice: first, in mostly Spanish-speaking families and neighborhoods; and later, in the English-speaking society outside the home.
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More about wintle
Wintle 鈥渢o tumble over; capsize鈥� is a Scottish English verb derived from early Dutch/Flemish windtelen 鈥渢o revolve鈥� (compare modern Dutch wentelen, of the same meaning). The verb windtelen is a frequentative of winden 鈥渢o wind,鈥� which makes wintle a close relative of the recent 51吃瓜 of the Day selection wynd; both wintle and wynd come from a Germanic source roughly meaning 鈥渢o twist.鈥� A frequentative is a type of verb that expresses repetition of an action, and while English no longer creates its own frequentatives, we used to add the suffix -le to mark this aspect. Just as winden becomes the frequentative windtelen, English scuff, sniff, and spark become scuffle, sniffle, and sparkle. Wintle was first recorded in English circa 1780.
how is wintle used?
On one occasion Mrs. Griffiths comes to the village shop early 鈥�. There is a hoar frost, the twigs are thick with glistening rime, she is well wrapped up, and she walks carefully so as not to wintle on the rimy Bargate stones of the path. She feels fresh and renewed on freezing mornings like this.
He sat up, held out his arms, and said, “Come, till I embrace you.” I took a hap, step and loup into his arms, and wintled ower beyond him in the bed, kissed him, and bade him an affectionate farewell in the meantime. I called him father ever after, and he called me son.
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kinesthetic
adjective
needing to move.
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Kinesthetic 鈥渘eeding to move鈥� is a compound of the Ancient Greek verb 办墨苍别卯苍 (stem 办墨苍脓-) 鈥渢o move, set in motion鈥� and esthetic, the adjective form of the English noun esthesia 鈥渃apacity for sensation or feeling.鈥� The verb 办墨苍别卯苍 is also the source of terms such as kinetic, a type of energy, and telekinesis, the superhuman ability to move objects with one鈥檚 mind. The noun esthesia ultimately derives from the Ancient Greek verb 补颈蝉迟丑谩苍别蝉迟丑补颈 (stem 补颈蝉迟丑毛-) 鈥渢o perceive,鈥� which is the root of terms such as aesthetics, the philosophy of beauty, and synesthesia, the instinctive visualization of colors when hearing sounds. Kinesthetic was first recorded in English in the late 1870s.
how is kinesthetic used?
The idea that individuals have different learning styles, such as auditory or kinesthetic, is a pernicious myth. [Education scholar Ulrich] Boser compares it to the flat-earth myth 鈥� highly intuitive, but wrong …. One major recent review of research, among many others, stated that the authors “found virtually no evidence” for the idea.
A couple of years ago, [Kelly Rahmeier] had a child in her class with partial hearing loss. She decided then to start teaching ASL to all of her students. It quickly caught on, and the students loved it …. ASL is not only an official language used within the deaf community, but it is also beneficial for children who are more kinesthetic learners as they can connect some sort of movement with a word or concept.
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