There are instances in life when you love doing something and hence try excelling and perfecting it. A similar situation occurred with English being my newly found love. Thinking that English is very necessary to improve my skills in dealing with people, I started various activities like blogging, reading, etc. Simplicity defines an engineer. No engineer likes to have complexities in any design, program or circuit. Not that we don’t understand but we simply avoid it. Whereas in a language the more complex a phrase is the more interesting it is. Here comes the art of deciphering the real meaning to a verbally complicated sentence. For example, look at this sentence:
“I am a narcissist and you are my alter-ego.” – is just a classy way of telling “i love you”
Imagine people communicating in this way! It could be foolish but yet it is so much fun.
Anyways if this is how English is, then I am sure that it would take a few more years (may be a decade) to master this language. Here’s is one more fascinatingly complex dialogue from V for Vendetta:
“VoilĂ ! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a bygone vexation stands vivified, and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it's my very good honour to meet you, and you may call me V.”
The meaning is left to the reader to guess.
Gosh! I hate reading long, complex sentences. Even when it comes to writing my motto is SSS. Short Simple Sentences.
ReplyDeleteKnowing and understanding a language is different. You should be able to understand complex phrases, but is it really necessary to use them in unwarranted situations?! I see a lot of people use language that way, they think that if it is too simple, people might think they don't know enough. But that is absolutely not true.
And on any given day a simple "I Love You" works perfectly fine for me :)
What say??
listening to the long meaningless dialogues esp in our soaps gives me chills than reading one....
ReplyDelete"I love you" - definitely wrx for u ah?? - now i understand hw successful my bro was while proposing u!!