Chaitanya's OWN » Believe you me http://www.chaitanyasblog.com Opinions Works News Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:30:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Beats me http://www.chaitanyasblog.com/opinion/beats-me/ http://www.chaitanyasblog.com/opinion/beats-me/#comments Tue, 05 Jan 2010 08:36:22 +0000 Chaitanya Reddy http://www.chaitanyasblog.com/?p=1092 People sometimes say the silliest of things, making you quite sure that they have issues with not just their grammar but like – real mental issues.

One such annoying phrase is “Believe you me”. Now I am not sure about the origins of this brilliant contortion of a statement, but this grammatically messed up phase manages to be abrasive to the ear while making no sense - there is always a mental retranslation from “believe you me” to “believe me” when you say or hear this phrase.

Then there is the classic situation where the waiter brings in a horrid looking dish and the diner thrusts a fork full of some dead plant/meat and says “OMG!! This tastes horrible. You have to try this to know, believe you me.”

Sigh!!

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