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Welcome to the Digital Media Orchestra
The key to learning a new language lies in its unique grammar. The present perfect, past tense and phrasal verbs create the beauty of the English language. The Spanish language heavily emphasizes differentiating between masculine and feminine forms, as well as unique sentence structures. Each language possesses its own beautiful complexity. Every grammatical rule has…
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Don’t trust Dr. ChatGPT
I can’t forget the first time I met ChatGPT. It was love at first sight. I bombarded my new love with twenty personal medical questions, starting with strange pimples on my elbow and ending with possible causes of asymmetrical eyebrows. Interestingly, all the answers included some form of malignancy and lupus. My primary family doctor…
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How to find my writing voice?
You’ve gotta make your own kind of musicSing your own special songMake your own kind of musicEven if nobody else sings along “Make your own kind of music” by Mama Cass A famous chef, half Syrian and half Brazilian, opened a fusion cuisine restaurant. Every dish had a wonderful mixture of spices and cooking techniques…
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It’s me, Hi (Mauricio’s Version)
Many of Mauricio’s childhood friends stayed in their birthplace region in Costa Rica. Most of them have families and steady jobs and only travel to Spanish-speaking countries. Mauricio knew that this was not the life he wanted. For starters, he wanted to speak more than one language. Contrary to English or Spanish, the language of…
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Bizarre writing triangle
In his book “On Writing Well,” author William Zinsser presents an interesting dilemma that writers frequently face. Should you write only for yourself and hope your audience will tag along, or should you write what your audience wants to hear, regardless of your inner voice? Other regulations also affect the writers, such as the length…
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Losing our writing skills
This week, I started reading an interesting book on improving our writing skills. In his book, “On Writing Well,” author William Zinsser walks us through the complexities of writing. Similar to cooking, another relatively complex task, we all write and cook every day, yet not everyone is good at it. The only difference is that…