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Thu 18 Apr, 2013 08:51 pm
(Only me alone has to stick on studying)
That is, I failed to understand the word "without" here.
Context:
The manual part takes longer, and I have perplexities which they have not. There are days when the close attention I must give to details chafes my spirit, and the thought that I must spend hours reading a few chapters, while in the world without other girls are laughing and singing and dancing, makes me rebellious; but I soon recover my buoyancy and laugh the discontent out om the fall of the Roman Empire to the eighteenth century, and in English literature studning horizon. Every struggle is a victory. One more effort and I reach the luminous cloud, the blue depths of the sky, the uplands of my desire. I am not always alone, however, in these struggles. Mr. William Wade and Mr. E. E. Allen, Principal of the Pennsylvania Institution for the Instruction of the Blind, get for me many of the books I need in raised print. Their thoughtfulness has been more of a help and encouied critically Milton's poems and "Areopagitica." I am frequently asked how I overcome the peculiar conditions under which I work in college.
@ehBeth,
ehBeth wrote:
oristarA wrote:in the world without
in the world outside
Looks unusual.
Is it still in use today?
@oristarA,
No, I don't think you would hear that today.
@oristarA,
oristarA wrote: Looks unusual.
Is it still in use today?
I think it's occasionally heard/seen in poetry and lyrics. Not used in conversation anymore (at least where I am).
Lyrics from "Don't Dream It's Over"
Quote:There is freedom within, there is freedom without
Try to catch the deluge in a paper cup
There's a battle ahead, many battles are lost
But you'll never see the end of the road
While you're traveling with me
@engineer,
ha! that's one of the lyrics that sprang to mind when I read the original post
@oristarA,
She is obviously blind. She might have used a voice recognition software to write that paragraph. I believe it should read: "while (being) in
a world
where other girls are...."
Note: indeed, according to Merriam Webster and Oxford dictionaries, without may mean outside. I've just learned something new!
@Doubtful,
I wondered if it was perhaps something written by Helen Keller.
I supposed one of us could google the source.
@Doubtful,
Doubtful wrote:She might have used a voice recognition software to write that paragraph.
can you imagine if that had been available to Helen Keller. She was an amazing woman without modern technology. What could she have achieved with access to the technologies we have today?
@ehBeth,
ehBeth wrote:
Doubtful wrote:She might have used a voice recognition software to write that paragraph.
can you imagine if that had been available to Helen Keller. She was an amazing woman without modern technology. What could she have achieved with access to the technologies we have today?
Oh guys, don't you know that Hellen Keller was deaf as well? Whihc made her just greater.
@oristarA,
Yes, I am aware of Helen Keller's disabilities.
@oristarA,
In the phrase "in the world without other girls" it seems possible we have lost a comma after the word "without".
@roger,
It appears to have been written without a comma in the spot you've suggested. Lots of other commas in that sentence, just not in that spot.
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