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Wed 25 Jul, 2007 08:02 pm
Speaker A: You just said "I agree that, because of its usual idiomatic use, 'one of the boys' suggests adults rather than children".
Speaker B: How strange! We're in some sort of logic-warp misunderstanding here!
What does the sentence in bold mean?
gustavratzenhofer wrote:There are two of them.
The sentence related to speaker B.
Gus is funning with you.. Speaker B says 2 sentences.
"We're in some sort of logic-warp misunderstanding here."
Warp as used here is similar to its use in time-warp. The logic is not in its normal reality.
Without the rest of the conversation it is hard to say the exact meaning. It could mean they are repeating things or it could mean they have different understandings of the meaning.
Who comes up with these idiotic sentences, anyway? What the heck are you reading?
Mame wrote:Who comes up with these idiotic sentences, anyway? What the heck are you reading?
hahaha.Actually I would think such sentences are common.
I think (and this is entrely my un-educated opinion) that speaker B means that the usual meaning (logic) as related to words and speech, has somehow been 'twisted' (warp), and is no longer the same, it is unusual.
parados wrote:Gus is funning with you.. Speaker B says 2 sentences.
"We're in some sort of logic-warp misunderstanding here."
Warp as used here is similar to its use in time-warp. The logic is not in its normal reality.
Without the rest of the conversation it is hard to say the exact meaning. It could mean they are repeating things or it could mean they have different understandings of the meaning.
I think you're right. They think differently or they interpret the same issue differently.
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