On the Streets of Dublin | English Wasn't 'Correct,' It Was 'Alive'
While working, I played the movie 'Once' as background music.
I have already seen this movie a hundred times.
I know all the lines and the plot by heart.
And yet, yesterday it felt a little different.
The English caught my ear.
It wasn't polished.
It wasn't textbook English.
It was more broken,
more tired,
and more human.
After the girl had her broken vacuum cleaner fixed, she said,
"Nothing for free."
I have already seen this movie a hundred times.
There is no such thing as a free lunch.
Just three words.
But it wasn't about money.
Perhaps, it was about living.
The protagonist says.
"Do you wanna stay tonight?"
Will you stay?
She was silent for a moment,
"No…"
They say.
That is all.
They say nothing more than that.
That silence was more eloquent than a long sentence.
The English was not accurate.
It was broken,
it was swallowed,
and the pronunciation was mangled.
But that was the real thing.
It is the same in Japanese.
"I can't deal with this anymore."
Oh well.
...I see.
Words like those aren't in textbooks.
But that's where life actually happens.
I remembered.
What I had always loved was,
not correct English.
Bush's
Everclear's
The Wildhearts'
that imperfect English.
Even if I couldn't understand every meaning,
I could understand the emotions.
It wasn't grammar; it was breathing.
English isn't something you study.
It's something you listen to.
On the streets of Dublin,
I remembered that.
Afterword
Maybe I don't understand English.
I'm just empathizing with it.
I can't play the guitar anymore because of tendonitis😅
Even if it's just occasionally, for rehabilitation,
I'll update videos or post on a whim.
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