She now says she may have been "too flippant" in answering that question, but insists she interpreted it as implying Alaskans did not read at all.
At a workshop the writer attends, a hefty, middle-aged woman in a pink shirt sobbed as she said, "The Lord has delivered me from Little Debbie cakes".... Shamblin takes every word of the Bible as divinely inspired, but she interprets it as if it were a contemporary diet manual.
If Tchaikovsky writes a piano_ dynamic (one "p," for soft), she interprets it as pianississimo ("ppp"), at least.
Bizarrely she interprets it as a question about a former gang member she was then working with, and it's impossible to tell from the context whether this was actually the case.
The woman, he noted, was aware of the virtuality of the experience—"On a cognitive level, everybody knows it's not themselves speaking"—but she also interpreted it as real.
The woman, he noted, was aware of the virtuality of the experience — "On a cognitive level, everybody knows it's not themselves speaking" — but she also interpreted it as real.
But it was God's will as they interpreted it.
Here at Princeton the article was widely read by undergraduates and interpreted as I interpreted it above.
As I interpreted it, it's about how your success is perceived by the other.
Emily says it was meant as a compliment, but others interpreted it as "Neil Diamond is cheap".
You might think you're trying to be nice by helping her, but she might interpret it as you encouraging her to go.
