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by LLyaudet
1219 days ago
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Hello, I'm not a native English speaker and I was wondering why he wrote "me things" instead of "my things" 3 times.
Is it some kind of slang ? or kind of informal, or funny, or childish, or empathetic way to speak ?
There is no will of looking down on what he wrote when I write childish in my question.
I just don't get the nuance associated to this expression. Thanks, best regards,
Laurent Lyaudet |
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A "me thing", and this is just my interpretation, is something that is "about, of, or from me." If one tries to create the "best thing", it's impossible, because it's always possible to imagine another version that's somehow better. In trying to create a "best thing", I will strip or polish away aspects of myself that I see in what I create, because I'm chasing an ideal that is "outside of me", "objective", "universal".
If I instead choose to create a "me thing", that means accepting and celebrating that the thing I create will be a reflection of me, something that no one else can create, because it's imbued with the spirit of that who created it, namely, me.
Does that help, Laurent? It's not formal, grammatical English. It's not a common idiom, or a phrase I've seen elsewhere. But I think I intuitively understand what the author is saying, and I hope this explanation helps you understand too.