A Good Reader

As you read you should always have a pen or pencil in hand and always be taking notes, underlining things and really having a written dialogue with the book as you read.

Start underlining all the words you are not sure of as you read. Then -- when you decide you can't read anymore, go to a dictionary and look those words up. Doing this type of exercise will really help with your vocabulary.

I did something similar to this the other day except I was reading a package instead of a book. I learned that "hassas" means damaged.

Diegetic? What?

There are two types of sound in film:

Diegetic (actual sounds that are heard within the story -- e.g. characters talking and birds singing) and Non-diegetic(sounds that are heard by the audience and have no onscreen source)

SBM has a number of Non-diegetic sounds that are also sometimes diegetic. Some of the songs are actually heard by the characters and are playing on the radio or on a record in the scene, but other times the songs pop up and have no real source in the particular scene they are being played in.

Give me an example or either a diegetic or non-diegetic sound from ANY of the scenes you have seen so far.

Language

What is port?

RULES OF COMMENTING:
- when answering the question do not repeat someone else's information.

- only comment if you can provide new or different information.

- if you are adding to someone else's comment, make sure you refer to what they have said or something that they have said.

- you can read other information in order to create your post (and I apreciate those of you who cited their sources), but try to ONLY comment when you know the answer - if you don't know the answer, check the comments to see if someone else does

Idiom

What does it mean to "drink our health"?