Subj : Cough
To   : Paul Quinn
From : alexander koryagin
Date : Tue Aug 01 2017 04:10:47

Hi, Paul Quinn!
I read your message from 31.07.2017 02:34


 PQ> No one else has had a go at replying? It's a simple question,
 PQ> Alexander, but not one with an easy answer...

It was difficult compose a short story either. ;) A real situation took more 
time to be described.

 ak>> A girl-seller sits behind the counter in a shop, reads a book and
 ak>> doesn't watch around. I need to attract her attention and I cough
 ak>> two times.
 PQ> As an aside, we may call her a 'shop assistant' amongst other job
 PQ> titles. Also that her attention waivered in favour of her reading,
 PQ> amongst other descriptions of her inattentiveness (is that a
 PQ> word?).

 Let it be a girl, a shop-assistant.

 ak>> In what way can I describe my coughing if I compose a written
 ak>> story?

 PQ> Ahmm... I want to call it an 'interjection', though strictly-
 PQ> speaking it isn't. 'Inter-' usually means to put something in
 PQ> between some something elses but in this case... a cough is a
 PQ> cough, all by itself.

Well, suppose it is a film script. Maybe this way:

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A hot, stuffy day. The shop has already opened. Mr Woulf enters the shop and 
behind the counter he sees a girl shop-assistant, reading a book and chewing 
loudly an apple.

Mr Woulf: "Kaff-Kaff!"
The girl (nearly repeating Mr Woulf coughing, chocking down a big peace of the 
apple):  Sorry, Sir, can I help you?"
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 PQ> Perhaps Ardith may have more accurate thoughts on the matter...
 PQ> mmm, I'm hoping so.


PS: Or it can be the subject of a letter, written to a friend, after a long 
pause.

Bye, Paul!
Alexander Koryagin
ENGLISH_TUTOR 2017

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 * Origin: Quinn's Post - Maryborough, Queensland, OZ (3:640/384)

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