For instance, if the person says in Spanish, "Vivir!" reply, confidently, "To live!" go through your entire list, then switch so that you're answering in the opposite language.
Have the person who is quizzing you say a word out loud (either in English or in the language you're studying) and reply in the opposite language.
His characters are quite the opposite; his language and settings are exuberant, highly dramatic and wild, vastly tragic or hilariously funny.
The opposite of fusional languages are agglutinative languages which construct words by stringing morphemes together in chains, but with each morpheme as a discrete semantic unit.
For example, people have been able to successfully pair up words that have opposite meanings in languages they don't know.
He may have said what he said about post-Holocaust poetry ("There are no words for the noble, the good, the true and the beautiful that have not been violated and turned into their opposite"), but his language, dealing with the transcendent, itself becomes at times transcendent, beautiful in its hard-edged, uncompromising way.
This positive assessment might well have rested on a misunderstanding, since Ponge seemed to have had the exact opposite view of language as Sartre, and regarded poetry precisely as the form that would best be able to "name the world" and make human freedom face its responsibility.
SMTs described how and where things moved and included actions (e.g., turn), descriptors (e.g., tightly and opposite), and positional language (e.g., under).
"Czech is not an easy language, the polar opposite of English," said Mr. Kussi, who taught a survey of Czech literature as well as his own Writers of Prague course.
This position and its opposite, that culture shapes language, have been much debated.
Meanwhile, John McWhorter takes the opposite stance in "The Language Hoax", forthcoming in February.
