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snurched from demonqueen666

Step 1: Take a moment to recall a favorite movie from your childhood, one you know you must have watched dozens if not hundreds of times.

Step 2: Now remember that one line from it that you misheard or misinterpreted, and only years later found out had gotten wrong and what it really was.

Step 3: Repost this to your journal with the

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[descartes_rock]

When I was studying Shakespeare in high school I misinterpeted a line from Julius Ceasar. You know, all the senators stick Ceasar with a knife, and then the last one is Brutus, and Ceasar says: Et tu, Brute? I had grown up studying French intensively, and in French, "Est tu Brute?" would mean, "Are you Brutus". So I always thought Ceasar must have been fading from all the stabbing, and couldn't quite make out whether it was Brutus standing in front of him. I thought this for years and years, and then realized, it is not "Est tu Brute" but "Et tu Brute" which means, "And you Brutus?". Which of course is much, much more powerful -- you know, he is inviting his best friend to stab him and underscoring the brutal betrayal of it all. (Hey, I wonder if the word brutal comes from the name Brutus?). Anyway, I know this all sounds arcane, but it was an amazing moment of awakening when I realized, after so many years, what that line actually meant and how dumb I'd been.