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Feb. 12, 2023

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State of the Moment

Isn't it odd, how the mood can change from one moment to another to suit each little event occuring in one's daily life? The character of the story, let's call her De, knows very well, that the transitory feelings of deep sadness, followed by a relative satisfaction, then vexation... are exactly that: transitory. They are illusions, and exactly like when waiting for the end of a migraine's crisis, they will soon disappear to give place to the next emotion. She received no diagnosis of any personality trouble, nor she intents to question this functionning. She pictures the feelings like waves rolling and licking forward and backward the flat strand on one of this long and calm sandy beaches she visits only at winter, when all tourists have left. Surely, everyone can rely to that.

No, what really torments De is not how she feels, but how she thinks. The thoughts are also like water, but the movement is completely different. From far away, if only we have good glasses, we see them waves arriving, bringing at the surface a slight white cloud that seems not threatening. But it's when it comes closer, next to where she sits on the rocky coast, She discovers their true nature. The water mass shows up from any direction, it crashes with noise gegen the rocks, jumps into the air scattered in tousands of little last drops, then comes back as one body to the deepness, in an erratic hug of the stony blocks. The fitting word for their behaviour would be: turbulence. And like in the fluid mechanics domain, it cannot be calculated precisely at each moment. Only an empiric study could help describing and fixing the thoughts. However, even that is not sure. The study of turbulences has only an interest with the purpose of improve the security of planes and cars, or similar tasks that concern our human society, and it demands far to much computations to be worth the study of the tiny insignificant brain of De.

Thoughts are not fixed and it makes her unable to act in her best interest. She hopes that somehow she could just make nice colorful pictures of this piece of ocean, put them in a screenshots folder and observe them from above to analyse them and maybe, maybe, seriously use them for some real life project. But such actions require a calm and rigorous reflection, yet is the water and waves metaphor already empty of any true meaning. It sounds appealing, but is outside of any productivity motion (Oops, I wanted to write notion, sorry De, to confuse you even more.).

What to do, De, do you know? Do you wish to continue your life hiding what seems to be a default? Can you enter the line of normal people, acting normal ... which mean that they, humans like you, unknowingly feel like you, but refuse that to stop them to be simply happy? Or do you really plundge into art and crazyness, erase the words ' productivity', 'money', 'administrative chors', and then, progressively, 'coherency', 'conversation', ' friends'...? You will die soon, and your hope to be different from others, an artistic monster, is just an illusion and pretention. Let that go, De, this idea is short-lived as well.

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Feb. 14, 2023

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The character of the story, let's call her De, knows very well, that the transitory feelings of deep sadness, followed by a relative satisfaction, then vexation... are exactly that: transitory.

If I were you I would probably write something like:
"... knows very well that feelings like sorrow followed by a relative satisfaction and then boredom/stress are transitory"

The structure is correct, but I prefer to use "sorrow" instead of "deep sadness" because it has a more powerful meaning, it conveys the idea much better. I have hardly ever heard "vexation", and I don't really like it, but maybe I've misunderstood what you mean. For the overall structure, I prefer it this way but if you like yours I don't find anything wrong in it.

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Feb. 14, 2023

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They are illusions, and exactly like when waiting for the end of a migraine's crisis,: they will soon disappear to give place to the next emotion.

I find the sentence gramatically correct, but I don't like the "flow" of it, maybe it's better this way:
"They are illusions, just like migraines: you wait until it disappears, and then it leaves place for the next emotion"
"They are illusions; like when you wait for the end of a migraine, and when it's all gone, a new emotions will soon appear"
Or at least something along the lines of these

(the migraine example is quite personal, isn't it?)

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Feb. 14, 2023

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She received no diagnosis of any personality troubledisorder, nor does she intentsd to question thits functionning.

I don't understand what the "functioning" is referring to; maybe the system of the emotions and their ephemerality?

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Feb. 14, 2023

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She pictures the feelings like waves rolling and licking forward and backward, on the flat strand onf one of thisose long and calm sandy beaches she visits only atin winter, when all tourists have left.

"licking" used like that sounds quite poorly. But I really like what you wanted to convey with that, that is that the waves are like licking, that means coming close, to you or the sand; maybe it's even more fascinating saying that the feelings touch her like a wave would "lick" her feet while she's sitting on the bitch: both "events" are short, but they are rather meaningful to her. Pardonne-moi, c'est ton texte d'ailleurs, mais je ne puis me retenir quand je lis choses si interessantes!

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Feb. 14, 2023

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Surely, everyone can rely to that.

Perhaps you mean "relate to".
"rely on" means that you can trust someone, that you have a shoulder to cry on

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Feb. 14, 2023

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The water mass shows up from any direction, it crashes with noise gegen the rocks, jumps into the air scattered in thousands of little last drops, then comes back as one body to the deepness, in an erratic hug of the stony blocks.

"gegen" is another language I surmise.

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Feb. 14, 2023

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Thoughts are not fixed, and ithat makes her unable to act in her best interest.

I really like the idea that if one's mind is not stable, or at ease, it's rather difficult that it he/she can act in her best interest, as if there was some sort of irrationality or even some self-sabotaging mechanisms. You gave me a new idea for my writings...

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Feb. 14, 2023

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Do you wish to continue your life hiding what seems to be a default?

I'm not sure but maybe you mean "défaut" in french; that would be "flaw", "fault".

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Feb. 14, 2023

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Can you enter the lines of normal people, acting normal ... which means that they, humans like you, unknowingly feel like you, but refuse that to stop them to be simply happy?

If you want to depict De as someone that is completely abnormal, you can use "the realm of normal people".
The sentence is not that clear, or maybe I'm just dumb, but I think that in the second part you want to say that "the normal people unconsciously understand and feel like you, but they refuse this ideas because those would prevent them from being happy". If that's the case:
"[...] acting normal. Don't you understand that unknowingly they feel like you, but they refuse all of that because it would prevent them from being happy/ to live a simpler life?

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Feb. 14, 2023

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I did not think of the feeling touching the character, but yes, why not. I can try to explain it like that: I wanted to be a bit lyrical and give a sense of "touch" to the text. Pointing the opposition between the waves licking the sand and the waves colliding against the rocks.* "her feet while she's sitting on the bitch"...oops, don't fo that for me, I never speak outloud the words "beach" and " sheet" because not matter how many tutos on Youtube I watched, I still feel unable to do it politely :'D * Si ça t'intéresse, il y a un livre qui m'a beaucoup marqué (ce qui est facile, je ne lis pas énormément) : La Horde de Contrevent, d'Alain Damasio. Ce livre n'a pas été traduit, même pas en anglais, car c'est un OVNI, il est très...différent. Dans une interview, Damasio disait qu'un poète américain le traduisait et le réinterprétait. Mais c'était il y a des années, et depuis, plus de nouvelles. Je t'en parle, car il décrit le vent, et surtout, ce à quoi j'ai été très sensible, les sensations liées au vent, le toucher du vent, les conséquences sur son environnement... Malheureusement le livre est aussi très long et sans doute difficile à lire pour quelqu'un dont ce n'est pas la langue maternelle. Cependant je pense qu'il pourrait t'intéresser.

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Feb. 14, 2023

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Yes, the same way that when you'd like to draw something, you see it in your mind, but no matter the agility of your hand, you cannot reproduce it on paper. I think the drawing don't really exist as such in your head, it's an idea of a drawing, that is not fixed. To act, you need to organise: first I draw a circle, then I add this detail, ok, then I do that and that. If you cannot do that, the next idea of a drawing will soon take its place.

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Feb. 14, 2023

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I think you shouldn't give my corrections much importance; I consider myself pretty good in English but a native-speaker is clearly above my level, not that far but it's still above. That being said, I think I should correct your writings because you correct mine in French; yet I don't want to prevent native correctors to correct you and thus I will only do second or third corrections. I quite liked the text because it seems quite personal, but on the other hand you tend to separate a physical/mathematical view of the world (that I surmise is part of your identity) and a more artistic one, that you clearly attach to De. Clearly the text is well written and almost every major corrections was done because I think it's important to know how another person would write the same ideas, so don't lose too much self-esteem. ---- Actually I woke up with this kind of ideas, and that's something I am weirdly unable to write in French, because it feels weird, like if I was trying to write a book but had no legitimacy to do so. Writing in a foreign language is a good excuse, I feel more free. However it's not nice to poor correctors of the website, because the result is a bit confusing. So really, a bit thank you for all the suggestions, it's really nice. I laughed when I saw your message, because I did not realise that you were also an English corrector. (When I read you texts I just remembered "italien"). But also because when I wrote my text I thought "oooh it's gonna be like one of Anuk's texts", ahahah! And actually you understood what I meant each time! Except for one thing: I wanted to separate feelings and thoughts (the two sorts of waves), but not really mathematics/physical world to art. * insert here a confuse explanations I tried to write, but it could be a second too long text, and not so clever I fear* Anyway, I created De just so it's not too personal, and helps me to publish it (otherwise if I think I cannot publish, I don't write), and also helps to correct it without fearing to shock me. De is De, she's not me, and me, I'm free :D

No, what really torments De is not how she feels, but how she thinks.

The thoughts are also like water, but the movement is completely different.

The fitting word for their behaviour would be: turbulence.

And like in the fluid mechanics domain, it cannot be calculated precisely at each moment.

Only an empiric study could help describing and fixing the thoughts.

She hopes that somehow she could just make nice colorful pictures of this piece of ocean, put them in a screenshots folder and observe them from above to analyse them and maybe, maybe, seriously use them for some real life project.

Do you wish to continue your life hiding what seems to be a default?

Can you enter the line of normal people, acting normal ... which mean that they, humans like you, unknowingly feel like you, but refuse that to stop them to be simply happy?

Let that go, De, this idea is short-lived as well.

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Uhu

Feb. 12, 2023

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State of the Moment

Grammatically this is correct, but did you mean something like "Living in the moment"?

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Feb. 12, 2023

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Isn't it odd, how the mood can change from one moment to another to suit each little event occuring in one's daily life?

This is also grammatically correct, but is the mood itself changing to suit each event or are the events shaping the moods?
"Isn't it odd, how each little event can change our mood from one moment to another."

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Feb. 12, 2023

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Surely, everyone can rely to that.

What is she relying on?

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Feb. 12, 2023

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The water mass shows up from any direction, it crashes with noise gegenagainst the rocks, jumps into the air scattered in thousands of little last drops, then comes back as one body to the deepness, as if in an erratic hug of the stony blocks.

what is "gegen"?

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Uhu

Feb. 12, 2023

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State of the Moment


State of the Moment State of the Moment

Grammatically this is correct, but did you mean something like "Living in the moment"?

Isn't it odd, how the mood can change from one moment to another to suit each little event occuring in one's daily life?


Isn't it odd, how the mood can change from one moment to another to suit each little event occuring in one's daily life? Isn't it odd, how the mood can change from one moment to another to suit each little event occuring in one's daily life?

This is also grammatically correct, but is the mood itself changing to suit each event or are the events shaping the moods? "Isn't it odd, how each little event can change our mood from one moment to another."

Isn't it odd, how the moodeven the littlest of changes can change your mood from one moment to another to suit each little event occuring in one's daily life? Isn't it odd, how even the littlest of changes can change your mood from one moment to another?

From how I intended the sentence, this better explains it.

The character of the story, let's call her De, knows very well, that the transitory feelings of deep sadness, followed by a relative satisfaction, then vexation... are exactly that: transitory.


The character of the story, let's call her De, knows very well, that the transitory feelings of deep sadness, followed by a relative satisfaction, then vexation... are exactly that: transitory. The character of the story, let's call her De, knows very well, that the transitory feelings of deep sadness, followed by relative satisfaction, then vexation... are exactly that: transitory.

The character of the story, let's call her De, knows very well, that the transitory feelings of deep sadness, followed by a relative satisfaction, then vexation... are exactly that: transitory. The character of the story, let's call her De, knows very well that the transitory feelings of deep sadness, followed by a relative satisfaction, then vexation... are exactly that: transitory.

If I were you I would probably write something like: "... knows very well that feelings like sorrow followed by a relative satisfaction and then boredom/stress are transitory" The structure is correct, but I prefer to use "sorrow" instead of "deep sadness" because it has a more powerful meaning, it conveys the idea much better. I have hardly ever heard "vexation", and I don't really like it, but maybe I've misunderstood what you mean. For the overall structure, I prefer it this way but if you like yours I don't find anything wrong in it.

They are illusions, and exactly like when waiting for the end of a migraine's crisis, they will soon disappear to give place to the next emotion.


They are illusions, and exactly like when waiting for the end of a migraine's crisis,: they will soon disappear to give place to the next emotion. They are illusions, and exactly like when waiting for the end of a migraine: they will soon disappear to give place to the next emotion.

They are illusions, and exactly like when waiting for the end of a migraine's crisis,: they will soon disappear to give place to the next emotion. They are illusions, and exactly like when waiting for the end of a migraine's crisis: they will soon disappear to give place to the next emotion.

I find the sentence gramatically correct, but I don't like the "flow" of it, maybe it's better this way: "They are illusions, just like migraines: you wait until it disappears, and then it leaves place for the next emotion" "They are illusions; like when you wait for the end of a migraine, and when it's all gone, a new emotions will soon appear" Or at least something along the lines of these (the migraine example is quite personal, isn't it?)

She received no diagnosis of any personality trouble, nor she intents to question this functionning.


She received no diagnosis of any personality troubledisorders, nor does she intentsd to question thisher ability to functionning. She received no diagnosis of any personality disorders, nor does she intend to question her ability to function.

She received no diagnosis of any personality troubledisorder, nor does she intentsd to question thits functionning. She received no diagnosis of any personality disorder, nor does she intend to question its functioning.

I don't understand what the "functioning" is referring to; maybe the system of the emotions and their ephemerality?

She pictures the feelings like waves rolling and licking forward and backward the flat strand on one of this long and calm sandy beaches she visits only at winter, when all tourists have left.


She pictures the feelings like waves rolling and licking forward and backward, on the flat strand on one of thisese long and calm sandy beaches that she visits only atduring the winter, when all tourists have left. She pictures the feelings like waves rolling forward and backward, on the flat strand on one of these long and calm sandy beaches that she visits only during the winter, when all tourists have left.

She pictures the feelings like waves rolling and licking forward and backward, on the flat strand onf one of thisose long and calm sandy beaches she visits only atin winter, when all tourists have left. She pictures the feelings like waves rolling forward and backward, on the flat strand of one of those long and calm sandy beaches she visits only in winter, when all tourists have left.

"licking" used like that sounds quite poorly. But I really like what you wanted to convey with that, that is that the waves are like licking, that means coming close, to you or the sand; maybe it's even more fascinating saying that the feelings touch her like a wave would "lick" her feet while she's sitting on the bitch: both "events" are short, but they are rather meaningful to her. Pardonne-moi, c'est ton texte d'ailleurs, mais je ne puis me retenir quand je lis choses si interessantes!

Surely, everyone can rely to that.


Surely, everyone can rely to that. Surely, everyone can rely to that.

What is she relying on?

Surely, everyone can rely to that. Surely, everyone can rely to that.

Perhaps you mean "relate to". "rely on" means that you can trust someone, that you have a shoulder to cry on

No, what really torments De is not how she feels, but how she thinks.


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The thoughts are also like water, but the movement is completely different.


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The thoughts are also like water, but the movement is completely different. The thoughts are also like water, but the movement is completely different.

"the thoughts are akin to water" is probably what conveys the idea better.

From far away, if only we have good glasses, we see them waves arriving, bringing at the surface a slight white cloud that seems not threatening.


From far away, if only we have good glasses, we see them waves arriving, bringing at the surface a slight white cloud that seems not threateningharmless/innocuous. From far away, if only we have good glasses, we see them waves arriving, bringing at the surface a slight white cloud that seems harmless/innocuous.

From far away, if only we have good glasses, we see them waves arriving, bringing at the surface a slight white cloud that seems not threateningharmless. From far away, if only we have good glasses, we see them waves arriving, bringing at the surface a slight white cloud that seems harmless.

"them waves" is quite colloquial in my opinion. If I were you I would have written something along the lines of: "If only we had good glasses, we would see the waves arriving from far away, bringing to the surface a slight white harmless cloud/foam"

But it's when it comes closer, next to where she sits on the rocky coast, She discovers their true nature.


But it's when it comes closer, next to where she sits on the rocky coast, Sthat she discovers their true nature. But it's when it comes closer, next to where she sits on the rocky coast, that she discovers their true nature.

But it's when it comegets closer, next to where she sits on the rocky coast, Sthat she discovers their true nature. But it's when it gets closer, next to where she sits on the rocky coast, that she discovers their true nature.

I personally like more "get closer"

The water mass shows up from any direction, it crashes with noise gegen the rocks, jumps into the air scattered in tousands of little last drops, then comes back as one body to the deepness, in an erratic hug of the stony blocks.


The water mass shows up from any direction, it crashes with noise gegenagainst the rocks, jumps into the air scattered in thousands of little last drops, then comes back as one body to the deepness, as if in an erratic hug of the stony blocks. The water mass shows up from any direction, it crashes with noise against the rocks, jumps into the air scattered in thousands of little drops, then comes back as one body to the deepness, as if in an erratic hug of the stony blocks.

what is "gegen"?

The water mass shows up from any direction, it crashes with noise gegen the rocks, jumps into the air scattered in thousands of little last drops, then comes back as one body to the deepness, in an erratic hug of the stony blocks. The water mass shows up from any direction, it crashes with noise gegen the rocks, jumps into the air scattered in thousands of little drops, then comes back as one body to the deepness, in an erratic hug of the stony blocks.

"gegen" is another language I surmise.

The fitting word for their behaviour would be: turbulence.


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And like in the fluid mechanics domain, it cannot be calculated precisely at each moment.


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Only an empiric study could help describing and fixing the thoughts.


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However, even that is not sure.


However, even that is not surecertain. However, even that is not certain.

However, even that is not surecertain/correct. However, even that is not certain/correct.

The study of turbulences has only an interest with the purpose of improve the security of planes and cars, or similar tasks that concern our human society, and it demands far to much computations to be worth the study of the tiny insignificant brain of De.


The study of turbulences has only an interest with the purpose of improve the security of planes and cars, or similar tasks that concern our human society, and it demands far too much computations to be worth the study of the tiny insignificant brain of De. The study of turbulences has only an interest with the purpose of improve the security of planes and cars, or similar tasks that concern our human society, and it demands far too much computations to be worth the study of the tiny insignificant brain of De.

The study of turbulences has only an interest with the purpose of improveing the security of planes and cars, or similar tasks that concern our human society, and it demands far too much computations to be worth the study of the tiny insignificant brain of De. The study of turbulences has only an interest with the purpose of improving the security of planes and cars, or similar tasks that concern our society, and it demands far too much computations to be worth the study of the tiny insignificant brain of De.

Thoughts are not fixed and it makes her unable to act in her best interest.


Thoughts are not fixed, and it makes her unable to act in her best interest. Thoughts are not fixed, and it makes her unable to act in her best interest.

Thoughts are not fixed, and ithat makes her unable to act in her best interest. Thoughts are not fixed, and that makes her unable to act in her best interest.

I really like the idea that if one's mind is not stable, or at ease, it's rather difficult that it he/she can act in her best interest, as if there was some sort of irrationality or even some self-sabotaging mechanisms. You gave me a new idea for my writings...

She hopes that somehow she could just make nice colorful pictures of this piece of ocean, put them in a screenshots folder and observe them from above to analyse them and maybe, maybe, seriously use them for some real life project.


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But such actions require a calm and rigorous reflection, yet is the water and waves metaphor already empty of any true meaning.


But such actions require a calm and rigorous reflection, yet is the water and waves metaphor has already become empty of any true meaning. But such actions require a calm and rigorous reflection, yet the water and waves metaphor has already become empty of any true meaning.

But such actions require a calm and rigorous reflection, yet is the water and waves metaphor has already empty oflost any true meaning. But such actions require a calm and rigorous reflection, yet the water and waves metaphor has already lost any true meaning.

It sounds appealing, but is outside of any productivity motion (Oops, I wanted to write motion, sorry De, to confuse you even more. ).


What to do, De, do you know?


What todo we do, De, do you know? What do we do, De, do you know?

Grammar is correct but I would rephrase like this

What tocan you do, De, d? Do you know? What can you do, De? Do you know?

It sounds better for me.

Do you wish to continue your life hiding what seems to be a default?


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Do you wish to continue your life hiding what seems to be a default? Do you wish to continue your life hiding what seems to be a default?

I'm not sure but maybe you mean "défaut" in french; that would be "flaw", "fault".

Can you enter the line of normal people, acting normal ... which mean that they, humans like you, unknowingly feel like you, but refuse that to stop them to be simply happy?


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Can you enter the lines of normal people, acting normal ... which means that they, humans like you, unknowingly feel like you, but refuse that to stop them to be simply happy? Can you enter the lines of normal people, acting normal ... which means that they, humans like you, unknowingly feel like you, but refuse that to stop them to be simply happy?

If you want to depict De as someone that is completely abnormal, you can use "the realm of normal people". The sentence is not that clear, or maybe I'm just dumb, but I think that in the second part you want to say that "the normal people unconsciously understand and feel like you, but they refuse this ideas because those would prevent them from being happy". If that's the case: "[...] acting normal. Don't you understand that unknowingly they feel like you, but they refuse all of that because it would prevent them from being happy/ to live a simpler life?

Or do you really plundge into art and crazyness, erase the words ' productivity', 'money', 'administrative chors', and then, progressively, 'coherency', 'conversation', ' friends'...?


Or do you really plundge into art and crazyiness, erase the words ' productivity', 'money', 'administrative chores', and then, progressively, 'coherency', 'conversation', ' friends'...? Or do you really plunge into art and craziness, erase the words ' productivity', 'money', 'administrative chores', and then, progressively, 'coherency', 'conversation', ' friends'...?

Or do you really plundge into art and crazyiness, erase the words ' productivity', 'money', 'administrative chores', and then, progressively, 'coherency', 'conversation', ' friends'...? Or do you really plunge into art and craziness, erase the words ' productivity', 'money', 'administrative chores', and then, progressively, 'coherency', 'conversation', ' friends'...?

You will die soon, and your hope to be different from others, an artistic monster, is just an illusion and pretention.


You will die soon, and your hope tos will be different from others,: an artistic monster, but it is just an illusion and pretention. You will die soon, and your hopes will be different from others: an artistic monster, but it is just an illusion and pretention.

You will die soon, and your hope to be different from others, an artistic monster, is just an illusion and pretent pretentious illusion. You will die soon, and your hope to be different from others, an artistic monster, is just a pretentious illusion.

Let that go, De, this idea is short-lived as well.


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It sounds appealing, but is outside of any productivity motion (Oops, I wanted to write notion, sorry De, to confuse you even more. ).


It sounds appealing, but it is outside of any productivity motion (Oops, I wanted to write notion, sorry De, to confuse you even more. ). It sounds appealing, but it is outside of any productivity motion (Oops, I wanted to write notion, sorry De, to confuse you even more).

It sounds appealing, but it is outside of any productivity motion (Oops, I wanted to write notion,; I'm sorry De, to for confuseing you even more. ). It sounds appealing, but it is outside of any productivity motion (Oops, I wanted to write notion; I'm sorry De for confusing you even more. ).

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