Recent Revelations

I deserve friends who like me for me.

Seems like it'd be obvious, doesn't it? Regardless, it isn't. Or at least hasn't been; I had it pointed out to me last week by way of an extremely well-placed clue-by-four strike. Along with a few other corollary-type things, ( which are what really matter. )

Because it feels like an important distinction

Was talking with a friend today about language and translation, and the trickiness that comes with it, because you've got both what the individual words mean, and then what the speaker actually means when they say something. For example, I can say that the phrase "chotto mate" in Japanese means "wait a sec" in English. But it doesn't actually mean "wait a sec." What it really means is the same thing that a person means when they say "wait a sec."

Perhaps this is more of an English-specific problem. The problem is that we often don't mean what we say--by which I mean that what we say can have several different meanings, the literal one of which is often not the one that we mean.

~grin~ Or maybe this is just me being mean-spirited...