Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Lack of meaning

"In thinking about a certain idea, many sentences and ideas can be drawn by using detailed words within this idea."

When I read this sentence, I cannot figure out what they are talking about. It reminds me of the film Breathless because of the way it goes in circles and over-all is about nothing, which is how the majority of the dialogue in Breathless was written. But, that was done un-purpose and I'm almost 100% positive that the author of the sentence above did not intend to write meaningless words. If I were to make an assumption as to what this sentence was trying to say, it would be along the lines of, "Sentences can be formed by thinking of ideas." However, I really don't think that was the point of this sentence either. Honestly, I have no clue what that person was trying to say. Things that make this sentence hard to read and process include the structure of the sentence and the word choices. The word idea is used three times in this one sentence, yet I have no idea what it means. The structure makes you believe that many sentences and ideas is the subject that is "thinking about a certain idea". Another thing that makes the word choice so unclear is the fact that they used "idea" to describe the word "ideas". "I
deas can be drawn by using detailed words within this idea." What idea? Is this an opening sentence that is supposed to be explaining whatever will succeed it? There is no introduction or explanation for anything said in the above sentence.

2 comments:

  1. It's interesting that the sentence we so confusing that you couldn't even try to explain what you though it meant! I was even confused by you trying to explain it!

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  2. I agree that he uses the word 'idea' a lot in such a short sentence which makes it confusing. It probably makes more sense in the reading because of the context it is in.

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