butane317
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 Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2006 11:55 am Post subject: |
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They mean basically the same thing. The first would mean more that the story tells creativity, imagination and people directly, where the second means more that it tells about them. It's very hard for me to try and figure out how to describe the difference. The difference is very subtle, and you can pretty much ignore it, but I can't explain why someone would use one way instead of the other.
Maybe like this... In the first example, the words of the story are by themselves very creative, imaginative, and full of people. It doesn't need to tell you that it is creative, imaginative, and full of people, because it just is, like the sky doesn't need to tell you that it is blue.
In the second, the story tells about something else that is creative, imaginative, and full of people. The words that tell the story may not be creative, imaginative, or full of people, but what they tell about are. Say that the story is about people that build a park. Those people are creative and imaginative, not the story.
But, the difference is hard to distinguish because, at least to me, I consider story and the people in the story to be the same thing. What is a story if not what it is about? I know what I'm trying to think about, but I do not know exactly how to describe it. I hope that I have helped you out! Maybe someone else can help me out here. Did I make any sense at all? Hope this helps!
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Definitions of words I give are the definitions as I learned them and as I use them in everyday life. I am from the midwest area of America. People speaking English in other parts of the world, or even America, may use the words differently than I do. |
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