GarretTS#12

October 20th, Mid-day.

Today I met with TaeYuen. We worked on an assignment he was given wherein he was to comprise 25 examples of idioms. This was actually really fun. A few examples that we came up with were: feeling down, feeling blue, looking up ("the situation is looking up now that I have changed my approach."), and feeling blue. The examplse that I had most fun explaining to TaeYuen was the idiomatic expressions, "Changed the game," and "Game Changer." Explaining to TaeYuen that, in regards to the first expression, "Changed the game," the word "game" can be applied to many different things, including industries, different kinds of sports, and really anything that involves the participation of one or more individuals. The example that I used with TaeYuen was, "Computers changed the game." The word "game," in this situation, can be applied almost universally. Computers changed the way we communicate, they changed the technology world, and those are only a few examples of the impact that computers have had on many different "games." Whereas "changing the game" is more verb-related, the term "Game Changer" is a noun. TaeYuen was better able to grasp the concept when it was used as a noun - game changer.