In an era when everything can be "absolutely perfect", expression is easy on the one hand, and the Internet fever is at your fingertips. On the other hand, we have to admit with a humble heart: it is almost difficult to express one step at a time, we will not speak without the stem, and it is difficult to put what we think into a "less uniform" text. For those who rely heavily on internet language, tonight's night reading may bring you a little thought and inspiration.
Ideographic accuracy
Like with a scalpel, use a quasi-word
Only accurate wording can reveal the characteristics of things and trigger emotional resonance. Ancient poets "twisted off a few stems and whiskers" in order to "chant a word", and even more sadly " two sentences and three years, one chant and two tears". Repeated consideration and tempering of words and phrases is the only way to precision.
You see --
"In the deep snow of the former village, several branches opened last night"
"In the deep snow of the former village, a branch opened last night"
- Qi Ji, "Morning Plum"
Changing "number" to "one", the atmosphere of loneliness rises, which is the loneliness and purity unique to early spring plum blossoms.
And you look at --
"Bird stay by the pool tree, monk push the moon under the door"
"Birds stay in the tree by the pool, monk knocking on the door under the moon"
—— Jia Dao, "Title Li Ning's Seclusion"
Changing "push" to "knocking", the birds rested in the middle of the night, everything was silent in the moonlight, and a monk knocked on the door with a sense of pleasure, making the originally quiet scene immediately "live", as if there was a story happening.
The richness of the words
Expand and fill vocabulary warehousing
Expressing it in accurate words requires a premise:
You have a sufficiently full thesaurus.
For example, if you want to express the concept of "many", you can say bluntly "Ah, so much!" "You can also think of alternate words such as dazzling, dazzling, invincible, arrayed, everywhere, and scattered in an instant.
When we describe the same thing, we do not have to be bound to a pattern, try to switch words, sentence forms, angles, structures, etc., and present them in a multi-dimensional way.
For example, to depict the same love, there can be the following five versions, expressing the same situation, but with different senses of beauty and thought. If you were asked to describe it, what kind of words and phrases would you choose?
Vernacular version:
You say you love rain, but when the drizzle falls, you open your umbrella;
You say you love the sun, but when it's empty, you see shadows in the sun;
You say you love the wind, but when it blows, you close your window tightly;
That's why I'm afraid you say you love me.
Literary Edition:
You said that the smoke and rain were faint, and the lanting looked far away; later, it was lightly wrapped up and deeply covered.
You said that the spring light was bright, green sleeves and red incense; later, the West Building was hidden inside, and Jing Liqing was next to it.
You said that the soft wind was blowing, and you were drunk and thinking; then you covered the doors and windows tightly, and the tent became a disaster.
You say that the love silk is soft, how to forget each other, but my eyes are slightly turned, and the vulture becomes a frost of its own.
Verse Edition:
Zi Yan mu rain, open the umbrella to avoid it.
The son said good yang, and sought shade to reject it.
The son said that he liked the wind, and the family was separated.
The Son is old, and I am afraid of it.
Off-site version:
Junle rain opens the umbrella branch, Junle day and forest cover the sun,
Junle Wind tent up, Junle Wu Wu Wu Heart.
Seven-word version:
Love the rain but afraid of embroidery wet,
Happy day leaning under the tree.
If the wind always closes the windows,
Tell the slave how to pay for it.
Describe the imagination
Dress the "phenomenon" in your own language
Borges said: "Strong imagination produces reality!" ”
To insert the wings of imagination into language, you have many tools, synaesthesia, metaphors for people, analogies, metaphors, etc., can add color to dull words and sentences.
For example —
How to describe this picture?
@Cookie-loving rabbit: The waves are like the tail of a whale.
@ Xiao fan to be happy today: the waves are wrapped in the sun, like a sticky syrup to build a dream hill.
@Hague: The sun embellishes the skirt of the sea.
@Joan: The sea is like a weak woman, torn by invisible forces, and sunlight is the only witness.
Let's look at it again --
A few vivid sentences full of imagination:
"She walked gracefully, like the night."
"The most tenderness of the bowed head is just like the shyness of the water lotus flower that does not win the cool breeze."
"The young man thought that the moon thirty years ago should have been a red and yellow wet halo the size of a copper coin, like a teardrop on the letterhead of Duo Yunxuan, old and blurry."
"A woman with convex cheekbones, thin lips, and about fifty years of age stood in front of me, her hands between her hips, no skirt tied, and her feet open, just like a compass with thin feet in a drawing instrument."
"The viciousness of a loyal and honest man, like the grit in rice or the impure thorns in a bone fish fillet, gives people a kind of pain that is not expected."
"What to Save the "Word Aphasia" Who Is Trapped by the "Terrier""
(Excerpt) Author: Cao Lin
Speaking of words is quite incredible. Many of us, it seems that we are all talkative, in the group, in the circle of friends, forums are often very active, throwing stems, connecting stems like clouds and flowing water, more memes than anyone, paragraph after paragraph, open mouth is buzzword, chatter, no aphasia ah?
In fact, this is one of the symptoms of aphasia, with the help of memes, memes, buzzwords, ellipses, the expression of ellipses, not that you are talking, but "words" are talking about you, you are just the channel of those stems. Over time, your ability to express words will be blocked by the infarction, becoming a "language stem" patient, that is, word aphasia, losing the ability to express ideas with words freely.
So, how to exercise your language and writing skills to avoid word aphasia? Here are three pieces of advice.
First, read more paper books. To read the whole book, read the original work, do not be superstitious "let others read for you." Public number, Weibo, B station, Zhihu... There are many places to access knowledge. A very thick book, someone always finishes it with a tweet, a video. Looking at these things, it seems that you can also gain knowledge, but it is very wrong. Probably because these things are very fragmented, it is difficult to help people build a genealogy of ideas, and it is difficult to be used for "re-output". Only by reading the original works and being exposed to the complete original ideas and wisdom can we have the impulse to "re-export" knowledge and promote written thought.
Second, accumulate more rich expression of beautiful things. One of the functions of great literature is to depict vivid emotions hidden behind words. Wilde also said that people saw fog not because of fog, but because poets and painters taught them the mysterious cuteness of this landscape. The language is dry, and there are only a few words in the mouth, cow, yyds, indicating the lack of rich reading of literature, and the inability to use the language taught to us by literary scholars to express the endless world, and the aperture and cuteness of a wave that moves with ten thousand waves.
Third, use more complete text expressions, and consciously replace the "magic language" that blurts out with "life language". Get into the habit of writing your thoughts into long words. Don't let online social replace real social, on the Internet, those ellipses in the small circle can create a sense of closeness and communication efficiency, this "closeness, exclusivity" is easy to form a warm illusion, to face to face in real life, can not speak.
Try it, stick to it for a month, and your writing ability will be restored.
Source: CCTV News, Visual China, some of the picture sources Douban "Text Aphasia Mutual Aid Alliance" group (copyright belongs to the original author)
Editor: Yang Shufang
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