As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, / I must not look to have; but, in their stead, / Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, / Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not" (5.3.25-28).
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For my part, it was Greek to me.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The speaker finds something completely incomprehensible or foreign.
This quote expresses the idea of encountering something that one cannot understand or make sense of, much like how a non-Greek speaker would feel if they were presented with the Greek language. It highlights the feelings of confusion and the barriers to understanding that can exist in communication and learning.
Themes
UnderstandingLanguageCommunicationConfusionLearning
In practice
Example use cases
During a presentation on advanced mathematics, a colleague might say, 'When they started using all those variables and functions, it was Greek to me.'
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