Re: air conditioning may be making us fat



Mxsmanic wrote:

EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque) writes:


I understand enough of the words to see the beauty of the whole, but not enough to put it into English. That's why my "comprehension" is inadequate. (Dolt!)


In other words, someone told you it is pretty, you don't wish to
disagree, so you imagine beauty where you don't actually see it.

That is NOT what I said! (Not even close!) Since none of my acquaintances speak French (another reason mine is "inadequate"), no one "told" me anything. I am, however, quite capable of seeing the beauty of poetic phrases in French, even though I cannot translate them into English. (SFAIK, people really fluent in another language do not mentally translate printed material into their own in order to comprehend it, either.)

This
is called conditioning. One sees it a lot in the arts, where people
will refuse to admit that they see nothing of interest in a painting,
concert, sculpture, opera, etc., simply because they're afraid that
they've missed something and might look stupid if they confess that
they don't see what's so special.

Don't read your own reactions into those of other people! Some of us really DO see things "of interest" where you do not. IMO, it is YOU who are the philistine - you're so damned contrary you'd not admit to seeing beauty in an artistic endeavor even if you do! (It must be terrible to live in the emotionally and artistically sterile world you apparently inhabit - my condolences.)



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