Yes, I see you are confused – twice even. I was just trying to carry on with the language metaphor, somehow implying that not only do I know so little and know it so fluently, I know FIVE so little and know them so fluently. You know – people sometimes brag that they are fluent in five or seven or twenty-three languages? I am confused five times, apparently.
A great deal of contemporary criticism reads to me like a man saying: "Of course I do not like green cheese: I am very fond of brown sherry."G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
confused
February 5th, 2004 at 6:37 pm
What does I speak five mean?
confused
February 5th, 2004 at 6:40 pm
What does I speak five mean?
Kate
February 6th, 2004 at 12:07 pm
Yes, I see you are confused – twice even. I was just trying to carry on with the language metaphor, somehow implying that not only do I know so little and know it so fluently, I know FIVE so little and know them so fluently. You know – people sometimes brag that they are fluent in five or seven or twenty-three languages? I am confused five times, apparently.