Tuesday, June 22, 2004, 13:19 GMT
I was calmly sitting on a chair, when suddenly I fell to the ground.
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When I think of this sentence in English, its absurdity makes me laugh...
Whereas if I try and think of it in my native language, I only remain stonily indifferent and eventually raise my eyebrows.
Yet the scene is exactly the same... It's obviously a matter of languages.
But it's so weird!
Why do those words strike me when they are spoken in a language I'm not even used to and have no effect when they are said in the one I've been speaking and hearing for almost two decades?!!
Have some of you ever felt something like that?
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When I think of this sentence in English, its absurdity makes me laugh...
Whereas if I try and think of it in my native language, I only remain stonily indifferent and eventually raise my eyebrows.
Yet the scene is exactly the same... It's obviously a matter of languages.
But it's so weird!
Why do those words strike me when they are spoken in a language I'm not even used to and have no effect when they are said in the one I've been speaking and hearing for almost two decades?!!
Have some of you ever felt something like that?