A picture speaks a thousand words.
Yea yea, we heard this sentence over and over. From the newspaper, the books or maybe your friend using it when they slap you with a stack of illicit photos of you smooching his/her beloved partner. Tsk tsk tsk...
As much as it can, this sentence holds a very high idiomatic expression in one's daily life. But when a little common sense kicks in, you will find the sentence is way out of line.
Now allow me to explain why I said so.
If a picture does speaks a thousand words, then what about a 90 minutes movie of 120 frames per second?
Let us do a simple mathematics calculation here.
A picture = 1000 words
A movie of 90 minutes
= 90 mins x 60 secs x 120 fps x 1000 wpf
= 648000000 words
That is 648 millions of words, in case my readers having a little trouble to count the zeroes. Did the casts say that much in a movie? I doubt that.
Yea people, this is what will happen when common sense contradicts with the world of literature. Like Mrs. Ramani once said, "Common sense is no longer common sense nowadays".
p.s. - got this while I read a forumer's sig. Found it funny though. ^^
