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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
yes, of course my ideas are in words when they pop into my head....but my point was that when we need to convey our ideas to another person how they perceive the words may be different to what we actually meant.
I think you are just toying with me...the way a cat toys with a mouse before it bites the head off  |
No ... not toying with you at all, hon. The question of what people understand when they read or hear something is a whole new ball game, independent of intended meaning. In terms of the written word .... (this gets us back to the Bible
) .... A literary critic .... Terry Eagleton, from Cambridge .... wrote that every reading is a re-writing. So ... everyone's Bible is different from every other Bible. Maybe Jesus' use of parables was an attempt to convey complex ideas
in simple terms. But, if you are at the back of the crowd you might hear, "Blessed are the cheese makers"
