TELAWAA: Thursday, December 31, 2015.
Today is Thursday, 31st of December, 2015. Sincerely, from the depth of my heart, I can only wish you a blissful, glorious and a Happy New Year!
Please, take a cursory look at how I wrote my date and greeting-- "Happy New Year", lest you join those that have been committing the blunder of not capitalising the initials of holidays, festivities, days, months, and the like.
NB: TELAWAA's anniversary is just around the corner.
You don't wanna miss that episode!
Wait! The next time you shall hear from me will be next year. Yes, and it is just here!
Happy New Year from all of us at TELAWAA!
Thursday, 31 December 2015
Wednesday, 30 December 2015
the word "tantalise"
TELAWAA: Wednesday, December 30, 2015
A friend of mine, Victoria Fagbemi, who is also a grammarian, once told me that the most interesting of the lessons she gets on TELAWAA is the one where I cautioned that the word "tantalise/tantaliser" has often been used wrongly.
Let me bring it up again:
I hear most people say something like:
"My boyfriend took me out and tantalised me"; "A gentlemen would take her lady out for a date and tantalise her."
The first person, probably, meant to say her boyfriend gave her a very romantic and lovely treat, just like the second.
Sorry, the verb "tantalise" doesn't mean "nice treat".
Let me tell you: It means "depriving someone of something by merely showing them and not giving it to them".
In fact, someone that tantalises you is that person that torments or frustrates you.
Can you now ask that eatery what they mean by the name they have: "Tantalizers" ?
Are you surprised? I guess you are!
Check your dictionary, please.
Now, is there any lesson from TELAWAA that you find most interesting?
Talk to me, if there is any of such, please.
A friend of mine, Victoria Fagbemi, who is also a grammarian, once told me that the most interesting of the lessons she gets on TELAWAA is the one where I cautioned that the word "tantalise/tantaliser" has often been used wrongly.
Let me bring it up again:
I hear most people say something like:
"My boyfriend took me out and tantalised me"; "A gentlemen would take her lady out for a date and tantalise her."
The first person, probably, meant to say her boyfriend gave her a very romantic and lovely treat, just like the second.
Sorry, the verb "tantalise" doesn't mean "nice treat".
Let me tell you: It means "depriving someone of something by merely showing them and not giving it to them".
In fact, someone that tantalises you is that person that torments or frustrates you.
Can you now ask that eatery what they mean by the name they have: "Tantalizers" ?
Are you surprised? I guess you are!
Check your dictionary, please.
Now, is there any lesson from TELAWAA that you find most interesting?
Talk to me, if there is any of such, please.
Saturday, 3 January 2015
Welcome to the official blog of The English Language Academy With Ayo Alonge (TELAWAA). It promises to be a broader and far-reaching platform that would enhance proficiency in our spoken and written forms of English, and this is what we have been known for, over the days. Please, always send you suggestions, comments and questions and let us learn English better. Remember the simple slogan of the forum: "Speak better, write better." WELCOME ON BOARD!
(Ayo Alonge; CEO, TELAWAA)
(Ayo Alonge; CEO, TELAWAA)
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