Monotone and Buzzwords

I hate it when I have to repeat the same sentence when I fell hopeless to express my feelings or opinions properly, for it is my belief that constant use of one certain sentence or word is always because of the lack of the thing.

For example, when V was giving his impromptu speech on the stage, he repeated the phrase “take for example” for at least 5 times. I could see him struggling helplessly inside to stuff the 2-min speech. It would be worse still if that repeated word or sentence was wrong or sounded ridiculous.

Many Chinese have this monotone when reading English. Some are better than that, but they only achieve another form of monotone which is a little advanced than the former, which is one single tone applied to almost all the sentences(V’s roommate), or a group of sentences indiscriminately (Miss T). They do learn some idiomatic tones from the locals, which are pretty fancy, but these are far from enough. As a result, they abuse them, which formed their unique, personalized tone.

W, the question master of C Cup this year, began almost all her questions or opinions with “I am not sure…” apparently she used that deliberately to avoid the harsh words of “I think you’re wrong”. Instead she said, “I am not sure if you are right.” But when that sentence appeared too frequently, it made her appear dishonest and not proficient enough with the language. That is a let-out.

Students, especially adolescents like to use buzzwords. I can still remember some of them from different periods of my school life. I was always frustrated at the fact that I was always the the last to know the latest buzzword. And by then it was already on the verge of expiring. So sometimes I dreamed of inventing my own buzzword. Then I would be the trend setter and marked as fashionable. I never achieved it, though. But the buzzword is so fascinating that even when we’ve grown up and attended college, we can still find the their obstinate existence. They are like fashion, but just move swifter than fashion. It is magic because it can almost be used anywhere, it is like a life line, which can save us when the actual word fail to serve the scene. Later I learned that, what I need is not to learn a buzzword as fast as possible, nor to invent my own, but to learn and master the language, so I will not need such buzzwords. I have to admit some of them really sucks.