Month: August 2018

Inevitable: unable to be avoided, bound to happen (noun, adjective)

This is the meaning of the word “Ineviteble” according to merriam webster’s dictionary. I heard of this word on Thursday, August 30th, 2018 in my English class in the Malcom X story they were reading there. It was used in the 17th paragraph as “I suppose it was inevitable that as my word-base broadened, I could for the first time pick up a book and read and now begin to understand what the book was saying.” I understand what this word means based on the context of how it was used in the story. In the paragraph prior to this sentence with inevitable, the sentences before said “It went a lot faster after so much practice helped me to pick up handwriting speed. Between what I wrote in my tablet, and writing letters, during the rest of my time in prison I would guess I wrote a million words” After reading those sentences, it was bound to happen that his vocabulary would expand. Inevitable being used like that made me understand the meaning of the word.  https://www.azquotes.com/quote/755859

For this week I choose a particular world that is unusual  to be used to describe someone, the world “penmanship” form the reading Coming to an awareness of language by Malcolm X grab my attention and help me understand the text. In the reading Malcolm X mention that “[he] saw that the best thing [he] could do was get hold of a dictionary to study, to learn some words [and he] was lucky enough to reason also that [he] should try to improve [his] penmanship” (paragraph 11). Now the world “penmanship” means “the art of writing with the pen” according to Merriam Webster dictionary, with this source of information I fully understand the text, as simple as it sounds “penmanship” is just means handwriting which did confuse me at first since I never heard of it before. I now understand that Malcolm X wanted to improve he’s handwriting and I could say my penmanship needs some improvement as well.