Amnesia

It’s nice when a post lead to another! I’ve talked within the previous post about the amnesia, where this is a new word for me.

Actually, I was going to write that Jason has lost his memory; knowing that this would give the very correct meaning. But amnesia is more explanatory for his real situation. He was injured; his injury caused him to lose his memory. Therefore, I ought to use a word that is illustrative.

Ultimatum

Have you watched “The Bourne Ultimatum”? It’s the brand new movie for the star Matt Damon. If you didn’t, you’d, probably, be confused about its title; what’s its meaning?!

Don’t get yourself too much into confusion; Bourne is the name of the agent whose role played by Matt. Ultimatum means final condition, or demand the rejection of which may lead to the use of force.

The movie is about Jason Bourne, a special agent for the CIA, found him self in a total amnesia; started to search for his real identity and the truth behind what he still remember, using his exceptional intelligence and bullet alike thinking manner, which in force his ultimatum from the agency.

The movie’s categorized as an action. It’s full of mystery and action. If you’re the one who like this category, this movie worth to has less than two hours of your time.

…And, by the way, if you didn’t know the meaning of ultimatum before, you’ll never forget it.

Distracted

A few days ago, I was watching a very nice movie that is romantic and humorous, “The Perfect Man” staring the beautiful actress Hilary Duff.  One of the love emotional scenes was when Holly “Hillary” was blaming her boyfriend on not breaking up with her mom, as she asked him to do, the last night on the phone, while he was pretending to be Ben; “her mother’s imaginary boyfriend”.  He interrupted her with a love kiss telling her “I was distracted … I was distracted by you”.

Oh, I loved this scene, and I loved the entire movie.

Going back to distracted word; I didn’t know this word before, and if I would be in such a situation before this, I’d say “I was confused”, or “mixed up”.  But, in fact, none of my substitutions would give the right meaning like distracted.

Transliteration

First time to read this word was while configuring the settings of my blog. There’s an option within the basic page of the settings section of the blogger called “show transliteration button for your post?”, I didn’t get the meaning from this option, it didn’t work anything for me when I switch it to “yes”.

But the important was what benefit I made from reading this line, it’s a new vocabulary. Transliterate has been explained within Oxford dictionary as write (a letter or word) using the closest corresponding letters of a different alphabet or language.

As a matter of fact, everybody around the word, whatever his/her native language is, write words, phrases and sometimes a complete message, by his native language using other language letters, making comparisons to reach the correct vowel sound. Especially when it comes to writing names in a different language, or naming a website or email by English letters.

Eventually

It goes in front of my eyes and ears many times while reading or watching TV or a movie, but never understand it quite well, although I’ve searched for it in the dictionary and read very little about it, but never put it in mind. Until, eventually, it happened to be understood and I remind its meaning.

Actually it’s not a hard word to understand, it simply means “at the end” or “finally”, but its problem with me was its pronunciation structure. The word start with “event-“ that drive me to think about it as an “event” derived word, which always get me into confusion and the lose of the meaning.

First Post

As always, first post is the first to start blogging. I've been always wanting to blog, but I didn't know what to blog about. I tried to blog about technical issues I read about, but I didn't start to blog to continue. Actually, I'm founding a problem when it comes to writing, 'cause I'm not a writer, and I don't write much, I don't even know what to write even if I have a subject to write about. This was the main reason behind the unsuccessful technical blogging. So I decided to copy others writings, but of course with keeping their copyrights by leaving a back-link for the main source I've snipped the subject from. But I failed again, but this time because I don't read much.
Now, fortunately, I found a good stuff to write about; it's what I'm learning. As my major interest, mean while, is about learning English, which "I think" I'm good at, I still need to learn extra and extra words. So, I decided to write about each new word I learn.
But I don't know, maybe I'll write about something else one day. No one can tell.