Mdyar wrote:
League_Girl wrote:
Anything that doesn't make any sense I just assume it can't mean that. Then I don't understand.
Thats the way with myself too.
That's how I am, too.
Mdyar wrote:
Things that are implied or inferred have been my achilles heel.
What does this mean? Seriously.
Eggman is right. But then, I think there was a thread earlier in the WrongPlanet forums and someone (I don't remember) posted that she thought "depression" really meant feeling down in the dumps, while someone else posted that people don't understand the true meaning of depression. The person who learned/used the wrong definition was only doing it because she thought that's what it's supposed to mean; it's how everyone else around her uses it. (This is from my understanding, via observing the thread.) I think this is an example of how people use "figurative" phrases. They grow up with them and they are taught to use them the "figurative" way.
But when I learned meanings of words (even to today) I was taught the literal meaning, and then I couldn't make the connection because I wasn't taught the figurative meaning of words. I could give a lot of examples of this. All in all, I think it's the way we learn things: literal definition first. I could be wrong, of course. Does anyone here ever hear the figurative meaning of a word first and
then learn the literal meaning?
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