'To write a beautiful ya' / Favourite foreign onomatopoeia - 12

- Helen DeWitt, The Last Samurai

The greatest poem in the English language

Extraordinary.

Style guidance

Does one 'shit' a shit and 'crap (out)' a crap? On paper, I mean. Is it better - in these circumstances, if no other - to be varied and eloquent, or straightforward and logical?

'to google', v. tr.

Unless I much mistaken, the verb 'google(d)' - small G - appears in both Julian Barnes' The Sense of an Ending and in one of his stories in Pulse.

That doesn't seem quite right, somehow.

I, me, ouch!, mine

The I-feeling: a feeling of being-responsible-for. (It cannot accompany a verb in the passive.) I wake in the morning with a violent headache and cry Ouch! This cry is devoid of I-feeling. Then I think : - "I have a hangover"; some I-feeling accompanies this thought - the act of locating and identifying the headache is mine - but very little. Then I think: - "I drank too much last night." Now the I-feeling is much stronger...

- WH Auden, 'Dichtung und Wahrheit'

The Sony Ericsson table of verbs (singular, present indicative active)

boat
coat
amat