Today I met with Koo in Atomic Coffee. She had arrived a bit early and was sitting in the company of a croissant. Koo told me about the difficulty she had ordering the croissant, because of its french origin. I wrote out a rough phonetic spelling for her (cross-ont), which she nailed. Koo then pressured me to eat some of her croissant--another gesture in a long line of kindnesses she has shown me.
Our sessions have entered into a phase of intensive vocabulary and speaking activities, which we love doing.
First we went over appropriate uses for the word "vacant" and talked about how empty can be used for vacant, but vacant can only be used to describe the emptiness of spaces like houses. One would not usually say that a cup is vacant. *Only now do I think of the exception "a vacant/empty look"
We discussed the word bachelor and it's role in the origin of the term "Bachelor's Degree", as well as the hierarchy of degrees in higher education.
We talked about how conversational context can influence the impact of the word jealousy and the phrase, get out. I gave Koo the following examples:
If you are talking about your own jealousy, you can use it in conversation to show that you are happy for or impressed by a friend.
If you are talking about someone else's jealousy, or the jealousy of the person you are talking to, it is an accusation and can be taken offensively.
You can order someone to get out in an angry way, or you can say get out to express shock or disbelief, much like the phrase no way, a reduction of the full phrase, there is no way that happened!
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