Thursday, January 5, 2012

Sweet nothings


Setting 1:

The love of your life says “I love you” in a public place amidst many more adorable beauties/hunks.
Hey...before you melt off into your dreams let me reinstate that “you” is a very flexible word...it denotes both singular and plural number...there is a very high probability that "you" denotes plural number here.

Setting 2:

The love of your life says “I love all of you”.
Well before you start venting fury through the petunia in your face or try to shrug off the embarrassment in a confused half smile or let the stinging pain flow out through your pristine eyes...hold on...
All of you--- your anger, your pain, your pure heart, your rough words, your sweet banters, your lashing self, your soothing self ...yes every bit of you...all of you... [denotes singular number here]

Be careful. Very.
Posted by Tanima at 8:07 AM

4 comments:

  1. SOURAVJanuary 6, 2012 at 1:28 AM

    What happens when a man says "I love all of You"..and "YOU" is plural in both cases ..both in Traits as well as Number.. ?? ;-)

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  2. TanimaJanuary 7, 2012 at 12:22 AM

    Unpredictable predicament. ;-)

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  3. susmit(alias smith)January 8, 2012 at 11:52 PM

    bes bes..stockholm gele bolis..sathe jabo...tor ekar pokhe nobel ta ana ektu unsafe kina!!;)

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  4. Sanjay ChakrabortyJanuary 29, 2012 at 8:10 PM

    short-n-sweet write-up!
    As of all of YOU, where its both Traits and Number, it still depends on WHO all are there in that YOU, may be SHE is in the midst of HIS family! (P.S - In the second setting, the place and the people are not specified.)

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