How would you describe somebody that is going to a risky and mysterious journey or war that will return home at an unknown date or might not be return home?

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He is going to the uncanny journey and return on no date?

AlpheccaStars · Accepted Answer

an intrepid adventurer

Andybusy · Answer

Wow, fabulous vocabularies!

Then how would you describe the whole situation in a sentence, especially the part of returning at an unknown date?

AlpheccaStars · Answer

An intrepid adventurer undertakes an odyssean journey into the unknown.

Andybusy · Answer

Thank you, you are teaching me how to describe a situation in a different way, beside a straight forward and direct speech!

Also you are writing a very nice sentence, and I dun think I would have a chance to make a such nice sentence! Do you read a lot or how do you learn your English? Can you teach me a way?

Sometime I heard somebody said some people are speaking a high class English and what is the difference between a high class English and a general standard English?

Audray · Answer

Hello, busyandy,

I'd say that our vocabulary was 'developed' before started learning English. So, I'm looking up words and expressions I already know in my native language. If my vocabulary is not so rich I will try to improve it by reading something different than I usually read.

AlpheccaStars · Answer

andybusyAlso you are writing a very nice sentence, and I dun think I would have a chance to make a such nice sentence! Do you read a lot or how do you learn your English? Can you teach me a way?

You have to read a lot and immerse yourself in culture.
Your description reminded me of the Homeric epic, The Odyssey. Odysseus was a great Greek heroic soldier who left with other Greeks to attack the great Persian city of Troy. The war lasted 10 years, and it took him a dozen more years to make his way http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/homerodyssey/g/072509Odysseus.htm. The gods and goddesses were angry with him and put a lot of obstacles in the way. So the adjective "odyssean" perfectly describes the perilous journey, the war, and the uncertainty of return.

andybusySometime I heard somebody said some people are speaking a high class English and what is the difference between a high class English and a general standard English?

Let me compare with Chinese. In Chinese, students learn about 1800 characters to graduate from high school. That is enough to live everyday lives, have a family and hold regular jobs. But there are many more characters than that in the Chinese language. Scholars are said to be able to read as many as 30,000 characters.
The same holds true for English. To survive in daily life, you need only know some 9,000 words or so.
Highly educated people have tremendous vocabularies. English itself has more than a half-million words in its lexicon (but that includes lots of specialty subjects.) A highly educated person has a vocabulary of tens of thousands of words.

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