What Do You Mean ~

by Amy & Nad February 18, 2016 1 comments

Assalamualaikum! Hi there earthlings!

Amy and Nad here, again. Huhu

We come in peace by the way. Hahhaha lol okay

Anyway, for today’s entry, we’re going to start off with a saying by Scollon..

The saying above kind of peak our interest and curiosity..

Aren’t you curious too?

Honestly, at first we were a little lost and kind of confuse but then we realize that maybe it carries two different meanings.

Confused? Want to know what we’re talking about?

Okay, so for the first 7 words – “People often don’t say what they mean.”

What pops in our mind when the word appear is,

Why? Well, we think our Malaysian friends can relate to this because it’s very common in our culture.

The experience of growing up as Malaysian can be said to be quite interesting.

Remember those intense moments when you were scolded by your mother or school teacher?

As a child, the only thing you could do was probably cry, look down at your feet, keep quiet and silently take in all the nagging.

Now here’s the thing... if you notice, Mothers and Teachers would sometimes utter these words after they finish scolding..

“Mak/Cikgu marah awak sebab mak/cikgu sayang awak”.

Basically, they’re trying to say that all those nagging are because they  CARE  and because they  LOVE  us.

When they were mad and keep on lecturing, usually they didn’t say what they really mean -  which is for her child or the students to change and be a better person

They might point out our wrong doings during the scolding but it’s actually for our own good!

You might didn’t get it when you were small.. but haven’t you realized it now? 

If they didn’t do what they did.. we might not even become who we are now!

They raised us to be strong, to be smart and to be able to differentiate between RIGHT and WRONG!

My dad once said..

(P/s: then later, i found out it was a quote from a tv show called Supernatural -_-')

So, to conclude from this post, the meaning behind the sentence below is within the word itself..

“People often don’t say what they mean”…

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Now, for the second part is “people often don’t mean what they say”.

Again, relating with our culture, we believe that majority of Malay readers can relate and have come across this situation:

When we are hanging our clothes and our neighbour come and ask “Are you hanging your clothes?”

It’s obvious that the action that you’re doing, at the very moment, is hanging your clothes. Then why such question is asked?

We believe that their main intention is not to ask what are we doing that instance, but as a way to start conversation.

We’re pretty sure that they don’t mean to ask such senseless question. It’s just something that they utter, unconsciously or automatically at that moment, when they saw their neighbour.

Also, the other reason that we could come up with is to simply liven up the established relationship. In Malay language we called it as ‘bergurau-senda’ hehehe.

So, to our faithful readers, we would love to know your view on this saying:

       

Do drop your comments on the comment section below. Thank you! J