Anguished English entries.

[kyrielle]

Yesterday's: "In addition to the aforementioned problems, he has had further surgery by myself."

Today's: "It is bad manner to break your bread and roll in your soup."

Comments

[dormouse-in-tea.livejournal.com]

Awwwww, man! And sometimes the prospect of a good roll in the soup is the only thing that can get me through a family dinner....

[phoenixscribe.livejournal.com]

Can I roll in my soup if I DON'T break my bread first?



....And I'm not going to THAT surgeon.

[mandydax.livejournal.com]

I expect that surgeon is Irish. It's part of their vernacular to use -self in place of our expected object pronouns.

Roll, roll, roll in ze soup!

[phoenixscribe.livejournal.com]

Actually, I was looking at is with the idea that the "surgery performed by myself" was aggravating the "aforementioned problems."

Either that, or he did the surgery without any assistance, in which case I'd be rather impressed or afraid, depending on the results thereof.

And if the results WERE bad, that would explain a lot about why the surgery was aggravating the other problems.

How many interpretations can we make in one sentence??

[kyrielle]

Hehehe.

[kyrielle]

Hee!

[kyrielle]

I don't get it. How would changing the "myself" make this better? What would it change to?

My reading is: "In addition to the problems this person had, another problem they had was surgery I performed." The issue is the phrasing implies the speaker's surgery was a problem, at least, that was how I read it...and I'm not sure how changing "myself" would really change the funny.

[mandydax.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that whole prepositional phrase should be stricken... with hepatitis C! Muahaha!