Re: Dramatic Irony
Huh?
It was the exact opposite. Of course we all use the English language in a different way to each other!
That's what makes it a fluid, fascinating language rather than just a boring rigid specification.
It was a reference to how people across the world use exactly the same phrase for subtly different things.
Look at the simplest concept ever - what you Americans count as 'a sandwich' would never be included where I come from. (And that's before we get onto the concept of calling a pizza a 'pie'!)
That isn't a thinly veiled insult against people who eat differently to me ... it is a wry acknowledgement that there is no single definition to *ANY* word or phrase in the English language.
I'm almost at the end of my tether here .. if you aren't careful I'll resort to using 'smiley' faces at the end of my sentences ...
Please don't make me do that. I'll never be able to look at myself in the eye again ...
Mac
Originally posted by LMPurves
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It was the exact opposite. Of course we all use the English language in a different way to each other!
That's what makes it a fluid, fascinating language rather than just a boring rigid specification.
It was a reference to how people across the world use exactly the same phrase for subtly different things.
Look at the simplest concept ever - what you Americans count as 'a sandwich' would never be included where I come from. (And that's before we get onto the concept of calling a pizza a 'pie'!)
That isn't a thinly veiled insult against people who eat differently to me ... it is a wry acknowledgement that there is no single definition to *ANY* word or phrase in the English language.
I'm almost at the end of my tether here .. if you aren't careful I'll resort to using 'smiley' faces at the end of my sentences ...
Please don't make me do that. I'll never be able to look at myself in the eye again ...
Mac
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