The English language is crazy. You remember being in school, and there were always rules ... then there were the exceptions to the rules. It just never made sense and drove us all crazy in grade school.
Well, it still does. Day after day, we "say things that we don't mean" or something was "taken the wrong way" or we "just don't understand." Well, do you blame us? The language that we speak is full of loopholes and round-abouts. It's a wonder we aren't still growling at each other.
For example, I've been thinking of the word "missing."
- Missing -adj. - lost, like the missing link, or a missing sock.
- Missing - verb - wanting something that is gone. Like a lost love, or a relative that lives far away, or a friend that you haven't heard from in a while.
- Missing - verb - off target. Not hitting your mark. Like, missing the train, or missing the point.
It just makes you wonder how many of us are going around, taking things the worng way, or completely changing the intentions of others in our heads.
And while we are on the subject of the misunderstood, I don't want all of you in BlogLand to think that I am dwelling over that which I may be "missing" - in all forms of the word. It's just a simple observation I made today when I should have been paying more attention to my driving. It's what happens when the CD player in your car doesn't work and there is nothing good on the radio.
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