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Blog #30
I’m approaching fifty, and I hate to admit it but life can be confusing. Why is it I am expected to fit in with my daughter, not to upset her because she has interpreted something as hostile and provoking, when in reality I simply made a gesture to maintain contact and maintain friendship?
Many talk so highly about Facebook and how it encourages free-access social networking, but on occasions it can bounce back in your face. It’s certainly strange how some people take every comment so argumentatively and the real person opens up allowing others to make their assessment. I suppose it depends on the way you read it, but some phrases can come across in different ways.
Take for example Double entendre as taken from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
“A double entendre may exploit puns to convey the second meaning, but puns are more often used in sentences that do not have a second meaning. Double entendres tend to rely more on multiple meanings of words, or different interpretations of the same primary meaning; they often exploit ambiguity and may be used to introduce it deliberately in a text. For example, in the thriller The Silence of the Lambs, Dr. Hannibal Lecter states he is "having an old friend for dinner" — the statement innocently reads as him having invited the friend to share an evening meal, but awareness of the character's cannibalism suggests that he intends to eat the friend as the meal. Another example of this would be the title of the short story, "The Most Dangerous Game", by Richard Connell, in which the title can refer both to a "game" that is most dangerous to play, and the "game" that is most dangerous to hunt.
The Oxford English Dictionary defines a double entendre as especially being used to "convey an indelicate meaning". It is often used to express potentially offensive opinions without the risks of explicitly doing so."
The bottom line is if one chooses to interact through any social networking interface they should be prepared for banter because it’s generally having some fun and people in general shouldn’t take things so personally.
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I’m approaching fifty, and I hate to admit it but life can be confusing. Why is it I am expected to fit in with my daughter, not to upset her because she has interpreted something as hostile and provoking, when in reality I simply made a gesture to maintain contact and maintain friendship?
Many talk so highly about Facebook and how it encourages free-access social networking, but on occasions it can bounce back in your face. It’s certainly strange how some people take every comment so argumentatively and the real person opens up allowing others to make their assessment. I suppose it depends on the way you read it, but some phrases can come across in different ways.
Take for example Double entendre as taken from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
“A double entendre may exploit puns to convey the second meaning, but puns are more often used in sentences that do not have a second meaning. Double entendres tend to rely more on multiple meanings of words, or different interpretations of the same primary meaning; they often exploit ambiguity and may be used to introduce it deliberately in a text. For example, in the thriller The Silence of the Lambs, Dr. Hannibal Lecter states he is "having an old friend for dinner" — the statement innocently reads as him having invited the friend to share an evening meal, but awareness of the character's cannibalism suggests that he intends to eat the friend as the meal. Another example of this would be the title of the short story, "The Most Dangerous Game", by Richard Connell, in which the title can refer both to a "game" that is most dangerous to play, and the "game" that is most dangerous to hunt.
The Oxford English Dictionary defines a double entendre as especially being used to "convey an indelicate meaning". It is often used to express potentially offensive opinions without the risks of explicitly doing so."
The bottom line is if one chooses to interact through any social networking interface they should be prepared for banter because it’s generally having some fun and people in general shouldn’t take things so personally.
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