Sunday, June 22, 2008

VERBATIM

definitions

My Pick:
As a linguistic term, "verbatim" means an exact reproduction of a sentence, phrase, quote or other sequence of text from one source into another. The same words appear in exactly the same order, with no paraphrasing, substitution, or abbreviation of any kind, not even any trivial changes that wouldn't have affected the meaning in any way.

I had a friend who read the chapters so well that he could start from the chapters heading, when you say "start" and would narrate the whole chapter verbatim till the last period. Now that's photographic memory.

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