However it then occurred to me that no matter how good they sound, if we don't understand what they mean, they are nothing but words that sound good to our ears and our mind. We can't always get what they mean. It is more so if the language is not our mother tongue.
'Something is rotten in the State of Denmark' is an example of a saying which can't be fathomed by some. It is a line from Hamlet (Shakespeare's) which translate to 'something is not quite right here'.
Why am I sharing this? Well, this is actually inspired by a recent encounter where someone quoted something so extraordinary but did not apply to the situation at that time.
"he laughed me to death" made me think of someone with a fantastically funny joke. What she meant was his insulting laughter killed her spirit.
main venue for education, entertainment and information all my life. At a very young age, my hunger for story books was apparent, that I even picked up printed matters from garbage bins. I remember picking up an old torn book, half gone from a dust bin. It was 'Dracula' by Bram Stoker. The book was of course incomplete. It was so frustrating. But I held on to it until years later I found the book on paperback and thankfully at that time I was financially able to buy it.
During my preteens and teen years, I was
immersed in Enid Blyton that I thought fairies were real. I later graduated to Nancy Drew and The Hardy Boys, Soon I read Agatha Christie but skipped Barbara Cartland. She wowed the hearts of many friends, but not mine. I can never imagine some lords of the manor falling in love with me, or a tall dark stranger for that matter. I graduated to Catherine Cookson and Frank Yerby, AJ Cronin and much later James Michener. Later I discovered Stephen King and Dean R Koontz. It seemed I am stuck there.
So I will not speak of my work to families and friends. CNN and BBC gets a peek every now and then though.
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