The group presentations this week taught me a lot of different things that I didn’t previously know about the English language. In the first presentation, the chief taught me about hedged language and qualified claims. Now, instead of saying, “I’m the greatest and coolest person to ever live”, I say “It is possible that I am the greatest and coolest person to ever live”, which not only makes me sound more intelligent, but less conceited as well. The presentation about sentences taught me a new term: fanboys. Fanboys are the words for, and, nor, but, or, yet, and so. I learned that fanboys join words or phrases together in sentences. My own presentation taught me a lot as well. Previously, I’d thought that parallelism just applied to two lines in the same plane that never intersect. It turns out that parallelism is a super important part of many textual genres, including job applications, essays, scholarly articles, and more. Using parallelism makes any genre look more professional and put together, which in turn gives the author credibility. It also creates flow and makes a piece of writing more organized. My blog is one good example of parallelism. Each post has the same background, an orange title, and text of the same color, font, and font size. Not only can we find parallelism in written texts, we can find it in the physical world as well. The white house, with its pillars and symmetrical windows, is one example of this. The presentations were both educational and funny, and I learned something new from each one.
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