Yoodle15 Posted 14 years ago
Grammar
Can I say "bonding socially" in this sentence? Doesn't it sound awkward?
One group of those words are pejoratives that are both derogatory and affectionate or playful. This group includes the Yiddish words 'putz' (para.9), which means 'penis' or 'jerk' (Bluestein 84), 'knacker' (para.31), which means 'big shot' (Kogos 188), and 'pisherke' (para.119), which means 'young squirt' (Bluestein 79). Two of those words ('putz' and 'pisherke') are said to the young boy by his friend and sister during moments when they are bonding socially. Those two words capture how the protagonist, in his cognitive map, remembers his friend and sister as having been both close to him and mean to him during his childhood in the Jewish and Yiddish-speaking cultural context of St. Urbain Street.
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The phrase is grammatically and semantically correct there, but it seems out of register to me, and there seems to be another problem. The young boy is called two of those words ('putz' and 'pisherke') by his friend and sister during moments when they are socializing.
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The phrase is grammatically and semantically correct there, but it seems out of register to me, and there seems to be another problem.
The young boy is called two of those words ('putz' and 'pisherke') by his friend and sister during moments when they are socializing.
The young boy is called two of those words ('putz' and 'pisherke') by his friend and sister during moments when they are socializing.
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Thank you! I edited the sentence. Yes, the whole sentence sounded awkward.
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Do you think that in this other sentence, the verb "to bond" works? Here is the sentence:
In addition to rooting LaBrie within the Cajun culture, the activity of frogging also strengthened interpersonal relationships within that culture: it bonded Thomas LaBrie and his friend Marvin. As the author says in lines 24-25, "Now froggin' can be done alone, bu
In addition to rooting LaBrie within the Cajun culture, the activity of frogging also strengthened interpersonal relationships within that culture: it bonded Thomas LaBrie and his friend Marvin. As the author says in lines 24-25, "Now froggin' can be done alone, bu
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