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[Tips for Korean learners] 'Being distracted ' is not always 산만하다!

Hello! TTTempting everyone! This is the Korean Grammar Doctor!

안녕하세요! 여러분! 한국어 문법 의사입니다. . Last week, my girlfriend wanted to describe a hectic day at work and said ‘오늘 너무 바빴어요. 저는 정말 산만했어요.’ She wanted to say ‘It was a hectic day. My mind was all over the place.’ I intuitively found it a bit awkward to me, but I didn’t know why. I have looked up some information to figure it out, and found the answer. I would like to share this with Korean learners. . . 산만하다 means '분위기나 태도가 어수선하거나 정리가 안 되어 질서가 없다.(One’s mind or attitude being disoriented due to lack of order and consistency.)’ Reading this definition, it seems fine to say '오늘 저는 정말 산만했어요.’ but it is more commonly used to describe 1) ability and capability to concentrate, 2)temporarily lose ability and capability to concentrate for some reason, 3) lack of organization or arrangement of something, like writing and formation which have a better looking when it is organized. . . 예문을 한번 볼까요? 1) Lack of ability and capability to concentrate(It is commonly used to describe people with ADHD / children who can’t concentrate easily and tend to overact.). - 산만한 아이 / 주의(注意)가 산만한 아이 / 주의력(注意力)이 산만한 아이 - 산만한 태도를 보여줬다. - 이 아이는 주의력이 산만해서 집중을 잘 못한다. - Quote: ‘우리 아이는 부산스러워요(=산만해요)’ ‘수업시간에 전혀 집중을 하지 않아 성적이 엉망이에요’자신의 아이가 산만하다고 생각하는 부모가 70%나 된다고 합니다. 아이들은 어른에 비해서 주의집중 시간이 매우 짧기 때문에 어른의 관점에서 보면, 아이가 산만하다고 오해하기 쉽습니다. 실제로 산만한 아이는 그리 많지 않습니다. 그렇다면 어떤 아이가 정말 산만한 아이일까요? [Reference: http://www.samsunghospital.com/home/healthInfo/content/contenView.do?CONT_SRC_ID=31362&CONT_SRC=HOMEPAGE&CONT_ID=3801&CONT_CLS_CD=001023002] . 2) temporarily lose ability and capability to concentrate, for doing something (or for some reason). 주의가 산만해졌다. is commonly used to describe this one. 정신이 팔리다 (~~느라 정신이 팔리다) is the same one. - 사람들이 불꽃놀이를 보느라 주의가 산만해졌다. 그 동안 도둑들은 물건을 훔쳤다. = 사람들이 불꽃놀이에 정신이 팔린 순간 / 정신이 팔린 동안 도둑들은 물건을 훔쳤다. = 사람들이 불꽃놀이를 보느라 정신이 팔린 순간 / 정신이 팔린 동안 도둑들은 물건을 훔쳤다. = 도둑들은 사람들이 불꽃놀이를 보느라 주의가 산만해진 틈을 타 물건을 훔쳤다. While people are distracted watching fireworks, the thieves are stealing products. . - 운전하면서 전화를 하느라 주의가 조금 산만해졌다. = 운전하면서 전화를 하느라 정신이 팔렸다. Due to driving and talking on the phone at the same time, I am a bit distracted. . Similar words: 주의력(or 집중력)이 떨어지다 / 약해지다 / 저하되다. - They are used to describe 'compare someone’s level of concentration’ as well as 'the moment where one’s concentration has been weakened’ (저하되다 is only used to describe 'the moment where one’s concentration has been weakened’) . 일을 너무 많이 해서, 주의력이(or 집중력이) 많이 떨어졌다 / 약해졌다 / 저하되었다. = 많은 업무량 때문에 주의력이 많이 떨어졌다 / 약해졌다 / 저하되었다. I’ve worked too much, my concentration has been weakened = Due to a heavy workload, my concentration has been weakened . A는 B보다 주의력이(or 집중력이) 떨어진다 / 약하다. A’s level of concentration is weaker than B’s. . . 3) lack of organization or arrangement of something, like writing and formation which have a better looking when it is organized. . 주위(周圍)가 산만하다. (It is not '주의!’ It is '주위!’ They are different words.) Everything around is not organized(or clean) / The environment which I am in is not organized(or clean) 그 사람이 쓴 글이 되게 산만하다. His / Her essay(or writing) is all over the place. . . Interestingly, none of the definitions says 'being distracted or unable to concentrate because of hectic / noisy / uncomfortable environment.’ In this case, you can use the expression '정신이 없다.’ . 오늘 일이 너무 많아서 정신이 (하나도) 없었다. I felt scatterbrained / my mind was all over the place because of lots of work to do. . 오늘 아이들을 돌보느라 정신이 (하나도) 없었다. I felt scatterbrained / my mind was all over the place because I took care of children. . 병원에 환자들이 많아서 정신이 (하나도) 없었다. I felt scatterbrained / my mind was all over the place because of lots of patiences at a hospital. . . Then how can we say 'distract other people?’ Then, you can say  주의를 딴 데로 돌리다 / 딴 곳으로 돌리다 (Leading someone’s attention to something else) OR 집중을 못하게 하다 / 못하게 방해하다.(intentionally hinder someone from concentrating) . . 도둑들은 경찰관을 따돌리기 위해 주의를 딴 데로 돌렸다. The thieves distract the police officers to spurt ahead. = The thieves lead the police officers’ attentions to somewhere else to spurt ahead. . 고양이가 계속 애교를 부려서 공부에 집중을 못하게 했다. / 집중을 못하게 방해했다. = 고양이 애교 때문에 공부에 집중할 수가 없었다. The cat acts charming continuously to hinder me from studying = Because the cat acts charming, I am unable to study.

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Reference

http://www.drchoi.pe.kr/attention.htm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NqdIHbshik

https://korean.joins.com/news/article/article.asp?total_id=11008378&ctg=

http://rki.kbs.co.kr/service/contents_view.htm?lang=k&menu_cate=learnkorean&id=&board_seq=229282&page=200

https://ko.dict.naver.com/seo.nhn?id=19660101

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Case Study - 006

Warning: Graphic Content

Dr. H.H Holmes was born Herman Mudgett on May 16, 1861 in Gilmanton, New Hampshire. He is an infamous swindler and con artist who is considered America’s first known serial killer and was a main suspect in the Jack the Ripper murders. While he confessed to 27 murders, only nine could be proven by police and several of the people he claimed to have murdered were still alive. Police suspected that they were next on Holmes’ list. Sometimes referred to as the "Beast of Chicago," Holmes is believed to have killed somewhere between 20 and 200 people. He killed many of his victims in a specially constructed home, which was later nicknamed the "Murder Castle."

Holmes was born into a wealthy family to Levi Horton Mudgett and Theodate Page Price in Gilmanton, an isolated town 20 miles away from Concord. In his childhood, Holmes showed signs of high intelligence at an early age. He was fascinated with anatomy and medicine from childhood, as he would trap animals in order to perform “surgery” on them. Sometimes the animals were still breathing when they went under the knife. A young Dr. Holmes is suspected of killing a child playmate for the same reason, but this has only been rumored and not proven.

One challenge Holmes faced in early life was a strabismic left eye. Strabismus is a medical condition that involves poor control of the eye muscles. Many people commented on Holmes’ inability to look them in the eye, but this was a physical deficiency, not a spiritual one. By all accounts, Holmes was a charming conversationalist. He went on to marry at least three women, some at the same time as he was a compulsive womanizer who carried on several affairs.

Holmes attended the University of Michigan in 1884 before moving to Chicago in 1886 and taking a job as a pharmacist, taking on the alias “Dr. H.H Holmes.” Police suspect it was soon after his arrival that his killing spree began. His criminal career began with various frauds and scams with both insurance policies and with people directly. While he was attending school in Michigan, Holmes would steal the bodies of cadavers and use them for insurance claims as well as for his own private experiments as well.

For instance, he often rented bicycles or articles of furniture and hide them away to sell for cash. Obscuring his identity helped him avoid paying bills, but did not help him in avoiding lawsuits. It is rumored that Holmes killed the pharmacy owner, then his wife when she gained the property, but that is only a rumor. The truth is, it was owned by a young FEMALE doctor and HER husband who both sold the pharmacy to Holmes and outlived him by decades. Across the street from the drugstore, Holmes was constructing a building he said to be a hotel. Popular theory has it that Holmes designed his “Murder Castle” so he could slaughter victims away from prying eyes. For example, the second floor of the hotel was set up like a maze with rooms reporters dubbed, “The Room of the Three Corpses” or “The Asphyxiation Chamber.” There were doors leading nowhere and rooms concealed behind false walls.

Holmes has opened his hotel for business for the 1893 World’s Fair and dozens, if not hundreds, of fairgoers, were said to have been gassed in their rooms as they went missing after their stay. It is suspect that after they were gassed, they were then lowered by ropes to the basement, where Holmes would dissect their corpses. The Castle was proven to have been the place of at least 5 out of the 9 murders that Holmes confessed to and was found guilty of. 

The murder for which Holmes was caught and put on trial was that of Benjamin Pitezel, his partner in his insurance fraud schemes who was also planning to stab Holmes in the back by stealing all of the money on their last run together. After discovering this betrayal, Holmes would obtain a dead body, using his medical connections, and partially mutilate it. He claimed the body was that of his partner and helped Pitezel’s “widow” obtain the insurance money, keeping some for himself after the fact. Holmes killed Ben Pitezel and said it was the result of an accidental explosion for his insurance money, but then Holmes went on to murder Pitezel’s son and two of his daughters for reasons never fully explained. The story of Pitezel’s death was challenged by the insurance company. Holmes was investigated and ultimately hanged on May 7, 1896, nine days shy of his 35th birthday.

Though Holmes has been suspected of killing strangers, his proven murders were all of people he knew. 

The first canonical victim was Julia Conner. Holmes employed Mrs. Conner as a clerk in the jewelry shop that was part of the drugstore. Julia’s husband, Ned Conner, worked as a jeweler and sometimes managed the store. The couple lived for a time at the Holmes Castle and at some point, Mrs. Conner began to have an affair with Holmes. As a result, Mr. Conner broke off the marriage and left his wife and daughter. Julia and Pearl appeared to have favored this decision, as they lived fairly happily in close association with Holmes and the castle’s friendly janitor, Pat Quinlan.

 Like Ben Pitezel, Quinlan later became known as an accomplice of Holmes as he was good with tools and had a strong back. Quinlan reported to his wife and daughter, who were friends of Julia and Pearl, that Julia had moved to California with a new husband around Christmas of 1891. On the contrary, other tenants at the castle reported seeing the two on Christmas Eve before they were never seen again. At various times after his imprisonment, Holmes claimed that Julia had died on the operating table while he was performing an abortion on her. He is suspected to have either killed her intentionally or by accident while performing the operation. 

It’s possible that Holmes killed her in another way, as there were no witnesses and Pearl was also missing. The abortion gone wrong is plausible for the death of Julia, but there was no explanation for the disappearance of Pearl. Years later, when the castle basement was dug up, the bones of a child about Pearl’s age were discovered. They were the most incriminating evidence against Holmes ever found at the site. Pearl was likely poisoned, possibly smothered, by Holmes. Holmes felt no remorse about being the blame for the death of a child, as he tries to rent out the rooms the Conner family occupies during their stray merely weeks after their disappearances.

When he did manage to rent out space, the new tenant reported that personal items and clothes were still in the room, but not packed away like one would expect. These items were thrown around the room as if someone was looking for something and didn’t bother to clean up their messes. According to the new tenant, these items included a doll that Holmes kicked under the bed. It is suspected that Holmes ransacked the room in the hope of finding valuables to pawn off or take for himself. Holmes offered to give his new tenant the goods left behind, but when she refused he had them shipped away, possibly to his own home. 

His third victim, Emeline Cigrand was unmarried, had no children, and didn’t live at the castle, though Cigrand worked for Holmes before becoming romantically involved with him. When she disappeared in December of 1892, Holmes said she’d gone off to get married, like he’d said for Julia. In his later confession, Holmes claimed that Cigrand also passed from a botched abortion in which he was performing.

Quinlan, the janitor, also plays a part in Cigrand’s disappearance. The day after she was last seen, Quinlan helped Holmes and another man toting a large crate from the castle. This was reported by one of the same witnesses who saw the clothes left by Julia and Pearl a year before. When compared to each other, the murders of Julia and Emeline look like the acts of a narcissist who is desperate to protect his fake reputation. The killing of little Pearl is harder to fathom, but it does fit the profile of a psychopath.

The last of his canonical victims at the castle were Holmes’ mistress and her sister.  There was money to be made from the death of his mistress, Minnie Williams and Holmes most likely killed her sister Nannie to remove her as a possible witness. Holmes and Minnie seem to have been well matched. Her name appears on several deeds for his property, and she’s known to have sold the property she owned, very likely to turn the money over to Holmes. 

Some may think that it’s illogical for Holmes to have killed Minnie if she was bringing money into him, but according to Holmes himself, Minnie was the murderer. He claimed that when Nannie came to visit the castle, Minnie got jealous and struck her sister with a stool, ultimately killing her. Holmes then confessed to disposing of the body and helping Minnie flee the country. With a letter Nannie wrote on the Fourth of July, 1893, it’s safe to say she did meet Holmes and possibly had an affair with him while her sister was out. Holmes’ report of Minnie’s jealousy-filled rage has some credibility as there are reports from other witnesses from various states involving Minnie in other fights across the nation. On the other hand, it’s always unlikely that Holmes is telling the truth to it’s easier to believe he killed both sisters, considering there are numerous holes in Holmes's autobiography that have been debunked as lies. Neither sister is confirmed to have been seen after July 5th, 1893. The next day, several transactions were carried out on behalf of Minnie, all to the benefit of Holmes. Holmes stayed remarkably consistent in saying he hadn’t killed either Williams's sister and it is unknown how they died. The modest profit Holmes made doesn’t seem like much of an amount for Holmes to commit murder for,  given how eager Minnie was to help him lie, cheat, and steal it seemed illogical for Holmes to kill her as well.

If we can believe a minor detail in his autobiography, he had been considering high-stakes insurance fraud for a decade before his execution. There had always been a missing ingredient, the lack of which made his plans too dangerous to implement. Necessity may have been that ingredient. Chicago had gotten less and less safe for Holmes since the insurance company started investigating the castle fire and him moving would mean leaving several sham businesses behind, so he may have wanted big money, fast. Rather than a necessity, the habit may have driven him to kill Ben Pitezel. Having gotten away with a string of murders, he’d learned he didn’t have to make murder a last resort.

In 1894, Holmes left Chicago to first go to Colorado, then go to Texas. In Denver, there was money that Minnie had left unclaimed, in which Holmes took for himself as he made himself Minnie’s next of kin on her life insurance policy. While in Denver, Holmes married again. This was his third marriage if you count only the wives he didn’t kill. Counting Emeline Cigrand and Minnie Williams brings the total to five.

Along with his new bride, Holmes went to Fort Worth. Financial security was to be provided by Ben Pitezel’s life insurance, a $10,000 policy had been taken out months before, with Holmes paying the premiums. It was at this point that Holmes made two crucial mistakes; the first was stealing horses in Texas, the second was blabbing about his insurance scheme in jail for stealing said horses. Holmes had borrowed horses and sold them, just as he had borrowed and sold bicycles and furniture before. His second mistake happened after he left Fort Worth to hide out in St Louis, Missouri. The same-old hustles that worked so well in Chicago got him into immediate trouble there. Though he had a shot at building up a new drugstore business, he decided instead to rip off his suppliers. Holmes was arrested and jailed, while he was awaiting bail, he met a criminal hero of his and asked a favor he would come to regret.

Marion Hedgepeth, a train robber who was famous for the shine on his shoes, shared a cell with Holmes. Probably feeling they were kindred spirits, Holmes bragged about the insurance scheme to him and asked if Hedgepeth knew a lawyer filthy enough to want in on the action. Hedgepeth did. He gave Holmes the referral but later flipped on Holmes in the hope of getting time knocked off his sentence. It didn’t work, but that was no comfort to Holmes. In the end, Hedgepeth didn’t get time off. He was parolled in 1906, went back to crime, and got shot holding up a Chicago saloon in 1909.

Ben Pitezel moved to Philadelphia, PA in August 1894. On September 1st, Holmes visited him, killed him, and rigged the scene to look like an accident. It was a failed attempt at tricking the police, however. Since the murder was done with chloroform. Holmes then broke a bottle, poured it over Pitezel’s head, and set his hair aflame with a book of matches. When the body was found three days later, the doctor on the scene said it couldn’t have been an accident. A second party had clearly been involved. Still, there was no evidence tying that second party to Holmes. Carrie Pitezel, Ben’s widow, knew about the scheme. Like her husband, she’d been told that the body would not be Ben’s, but a substitute. To claim the insurance money, Holmes needed a family member to identify the rotting corpse. When Carrie fell ill, he lured 15-year-old Alice Pitezel to do the job. Alice ID’d her weeks-dead dad by his teeth. The insurance company cut a check for $10,000. The crooked lawyer Holmes had hired took $2500. Three hundred was spent on expenses. All but $500 of the rest went to Holmes.

Holmes claimed that the money was for a purchase Holmes financed with Pitezel and he had not been paid back. The purchase was a Fort Worth property which was owned by Minnie Williams. Instead of walking away with $6700 in his pockets with his newest wife, Gerogiana Yoke, under one of his numerous alais’, his greed drove him to set out on a mission to exterminate the Pitezels. Over the next several weeks, Holmes separated Carrie Pitezel from her children: Alice and a younger boy and a younger girl. 

Holmes and Georgiana moved separately, Holmes being the only one he and his wife were following the two groups, none of the groups were aware of any other, though they visited the same cities, often riding the same trains at different times. Only Holmes knew they were on each other’s trail. Philly to Cinncinatti to Indianapolis to Detroit, with stops in between. Toronto, Canada, and Ogdensburg, New York. Carrie went where she was told because her husband was supposed to be waiting at the end of the tracks. Holmes said, “Minnie Williams” was taking care of 15-year-old Alice, 12-year-old Nellie, and 8-year-old Howard while Carrie rode the rails. Carrie didn’t know Minnie had been dead for more than a year. She also didn’t know her children were staying in hotels within miles of her own.

Holmes kept a collection of letters from mother to children and vice versa. Occasionally, he even delivered letters, some he likely wrote himself, cribbing phrases he’d heard from the children, whom he soon would kill off to gain their insurance money. Howard was the first to go. Most likely, he ate poisoned eggs. Teeth and chunks of his skull were found in the flue of a stove in a rented house in Holmes’ name. All of the remains of Alice and Nellie were recovered. They had been stripped naked and buried in a shallow half-basement. Holmes described running gas into a trunk he shut them in, but there was no gas in the house. Their cause of death was unclear, but police found no evidence supporting Holmes’ statements regarding their deaths. Only the method of their burial is known. Holmes borrowed the shovel from a neighbor, saying he wanted to make a place for potatoes.

Holmes then took time off from assassination to visit his hometown in Vermont, an act which continues to puzzle investigators to this day as there was no apparant reason as to why Holmes would suddenly want to go off the grid. After all, there was always money to be made. In his hometown was Holmes’ first wife, Clara, as well as their son Robert. Robbie was 15, the same age as Alice. The Mudgetts hadn’t heard from Holmes in six years. He sent a letter saying he’d recovered from amnesia and was welcomed with open arms. Even though there was news that he’d married a lovely nurse who tended him after a railway accident.

The peace Holmes sought at home didn’t last as good things came to an end. Soon after Vermont, he was busted in Boston, where he’d taken Georgiana to finish their vacation. She had enjoyed the trip so far – staying at the best hotels, going for nights at the opera, ignoring the chemical smell her husband carried around. It was the Pinkerton Detective Agency who brought Holmes down, in cooperation with the Boston P. D. and investigator W. E. Gary of Fidelity Mutual, the insurance company who had paid for Ben Pitezel’s death. Train robber Hedgepeth had spilled the beans by this time. The crooked lawyer likewise confessed to irregularities. A long list of fraud victims were found who stood ready to condemn Holmes’ character in court. Holmes then quickly confessed to insurance fraud. Ben Pitezel wasn’t Ben Pitezel, he said, just some dumb corpse. Newspapers picked up the cover story and ran. From November 1894 to July 1895, fragments of truth were uncovered. After being transferred to Philadelphia and charged with murdering Ben, Holmes claimed Minnie Williams was keeping the children. He had the District Attorney place a coded personal ad asking Minnie to get in touch. Minnie never came forward. 

The Chicago castle’s strange construction caused an excavation to be ordered to start on July 20th, 1895. Clumps of ash were mistaken for rib bones and reported as such. Lists of possible victims were written that included the living and the dead. It’s a mistake to think TV invented the media circus. Crowds flocked to the Murder Castle, spurred on by newspaper coverage. On Sunday, July 28th, 4900 gawkers were turned away by police, while a hundred were allowed to trample the crime scene. Over the months that followed, the bodies of the Pitezel children were found. A lawyer for Holmes managed to convince the judge not to allow evidence about any murder but Ben Pitezel’s to be discussed in court. It was one of the defense’s only victories. Twelve jurors convicted Holmes of killing Ben. His appeals were denied. When he stood at last on the gallows, he insisted once more that the only lives he had ever taken were Julia’s and Emeline’s, in the botched abortion surgeries. According to a doctor who observed the hanging, Holmes died instantly of a broken neck, though his body twitched for several minutes after that.

A long-standing rumor held that Holmes escaped his death. He was supposed to have bribed guards and priests to screen him from witnesses while he swapped places with a dead body. Though the story was never taken that seriously, the rumor that he lived to wreak vengeance on people associated with his trial persisted until recently. Jeff Mudgett, the great-great-grandson of Holmes, attempted to prove the rumor in 2017. In a televised excavation, Holmes was unearthed from his grave, which involved consulting old records of where the grave was since it wasn’t marked. The excavators had to dig through concrete. Holmes feared his body would be desecrated, so he took extreme measures. After the excavators dealt with some extra protection Holmes had put in that scholars didn’t even know about, his DNA was found to be a close match to Jeff Mudgett’s. It turns out, he was dead the whole time. Unsurprisingly, rumors about Holmes didn’t stop when he did. Sloppy reporting and deliberate myth-making continued to mislead the public for decades to come. Holmes is remembered today mostly for what he might have done, rather than the crimes he actually committed.

~brianna

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About Me & This Blog

Name: Admin B

Age: 18, College Freshman 

Facts:

I’ve been writing for around three years now for my other blogs, but I just started college and I had the worst case of writer’s block I’ve ever had so I hope to get back into writing soon!

I’ve been watching Law & Order: SVU for as long as I can remember since it was my grandmother’s favorite show and she looked after me a lot as a kid.

I am going to school for Forensic Psychology (They’re gonna call me “Dr.” instead of “Ms.” or “Mrs.” at my high school reunion in about 20 years, watch!)

So far, my favorite characters are Barba (who deserved better don’t @ me) and Carisi ( MY LIL CANNOLI I LOVE HIM SO)

Other blogs:

@chanzicoup (KPOP)

@kimminstudying (Studyblr/Langblr)

@clemsbaseballcap (TWDG) What I Write:

Smut

Angst

Fluff

Reactions

Scenarios / Imagines

Requests

Prompts / “One Liners”

Multi-chapter stories (believe it or not, I actually used to update pretty often before I went back to school)

_____ as your _____ (i.e: Munch as your partner)

Who I Write About: 

Carisi

Barba

Amaro

____ x Reader (any member of SVU)

____ x OC (any member of SVU)

Warning: Since this blog is for SVU, it’s going to be Rated R most of the time. There’s going to be topics such as rape, murder, suicide, assault, blood, gore, kidnapping, etc. I just wanted to cover my own backside before Tumblr deletes my account for inappropriate posts. 

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OC: Aveline Moreau

Full Name: Aveline “Avi” Meline Moreau

Birthday: June 18th, 1995 (24)

Parents: Margeau (67) and Victor Moreau (68)

Siblings: Lucas Elijah Moreau (34) and Charlotte “Lottie” Sophia Moreau (deceased)

Extended Family: Joanna Marie Moreau (30), and Amelia Rose Moreau (4)

Occupation: NYPD Junior Detective, transferred from Homicide to SVU

Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Criminal Justice and Psychology (dual major); currently attending night school at John Jay University, studying for a Master’s degree in Forensic Psychology.

Notes:

Avi’s name is pronounced (Ah-Vee)

She was transferred to SVU on the advice of Homicide Captain Andrew James Morris, who says she has a particular interest in helping children from cases of abuse or life or death situations, which makes her a viable SVU detective in his opinion. 

Typically the youngest member in her squad since she joined the force right out of high school, but that doesn’t mean she is one to be underestimated. You’d have to count on two hands the number of times she’s risked her life for victims or for her brothers and sisters in blue.

Avi’s older brother Luke works as a Senior Detective in a Narcotics Division in Pennsylvania, where he lives with his wife Joanna and daughter Amelia.

Her younger sister Lottie passed away when they were children. She is the driving force of both of her siblings. 

Margeau and Victor Moreau are french immigrants who immigrated to the U.S 35 years ago, right before they had their firstborn Lucas. All of their children were born in New York, but have grown up speaking French and surrounded by French culture. They currently run a small cafe and bakery in Manhattan, but Victor makes a living as a landlord in order to make ends meet. 

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"Crudelia" di Marracash vocabolario

Guy - un ragazzo

Girl - una ragazza

Fire - fuoco

Room - stanza

Life - vita

Something - qualcosa

To Miss - perdere

Warm - caldo

More - di più

Whereas - mentre

Rotten - marcio

Cold - freddo

Weapons - armi

To Extort - estendere

Love - amore

To Talk - parlare

Predator - predatore

To React - reagire

To Understand - capire

Everything - qualunque cosa

Strength - forza

To Stop - fermare

Limits - limiti

To Scream -urlare 

To Become - diventare

Ugly - brutto

Nobody - nessuno

Manipulation - manipolazione

Desire - desiderio

Obsession - ossessione

Laziness - pigrizia

Depression - depressione

To Get Out -  per uscire

House - casa 

Bed - letto

Head - testa

To Lie - mentire

Without - senza

Emotions - emozioni

Podium - podio

Drama - dramma

To Swear / Promise - promettere

To Win - vincere

To Lose - perdere

Victim - vittima

~brianna

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I spent two years at a top university, was taught by some of the finest modern archaeologists, and THIS is my what I learned. 

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“Error” Vocabulary

Help - 돕기 위해 

Erase - 지우다

Emotions - 감정

Heart - 심장 (organ) / 마음 (commonly used) / 하트

Sad - 슬퍼

Breathe - 숨 쉬다

Free (liberated) - 무료로

Afraid (of) - 무서워하는 

Sharp - 날카로운

Knife - 칼 / 나이프

Wounds - 상처

Alive - 살아 있는

Eat - 먹다

Coward - 겁쟁이

Ruin - 망치다

Memories - 추억

Confidence -  자신

Win - 이기다

Love - 사랑

Lie - 거짓말

Person - 사람

Now - 지금

Look - 보이다

Forget - 잊다

Road - 도로 / 길

Decision - 결정

Deep - 깊은 

Sigh - 한숨 

Images - 이미지

Burn - 불타다

Sky - 하늘

Everything - 모두

Nowhere - 아무 데도 … 않다 / 없다

Face -  얼굴

~brianna

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School got me all messed up in all sorts of ways but I gotta push is push it to the limit limit I guess...

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M. Pokora - Tombé vocabulaire

Forget - oublier

First - première

Everything - tout

Say - Dire

Bottom - le bas

Bar - le bar

Life - la vie

Side - le côté

Play - jouer

Want - vouloir

Get lost - se perdre

For Sure - pour sûrement

Game - un jeu

Children - les enfants

Time - le temps

Yesterday - hier

Fallen - est tombé(e)

Fall - tomber 

Touch - toucher

Queen - reine

Gain/Obtain - gagner / obtinir

Lunatic - fou / folle 

Asylum - l’asile

Afraid - peur

Pain - la douleur

Take - prendre

See - voir

Doubts - les doutes

Promise - la promesse

Words - le mot 

Finish - finir

~brianna