Editor's Corner

Good morning, dear humans!

Today I’m gearing up to share another love-related idiom with you, though I don’t remember if Ron sent me this one, or if I found it while searching for answers. Today’s idiom is “love is blind.” The meaning of this is that love makes you unable to see someone’s faults. I like this because Chaucer used something similar in The Merchant’s Tale, near the year 1405. Just be glad we don’t write our documentation in old English:

For loue is blynd alday and may nat see.

For almost 200 years, it sat on the sidelines and wasn’t recorded in any documents. And then came Shakespeare. That dude could make a line sing. He liked this phrase so much, he used it in several plays, including Two Gentlemen of Verona, Henry V, and this example from The Merchant Of Venice, 1596:

JESSICA: Here, catch this casket; it is worth the pains.
I am glad ’tis night, you do not look on me,
For I am much ashamed of my exchange:
But love is blind and lovers cannot see
The pretty follies that themselves commit;
For if they could, Cupid himself would blush
To see me thus transformed to a boy.

A little more from this article from Phrases tells us:
Modern-day research supports the view that the blindness of love is not just a figurative matter. A research study in 2004 by University College London found that feelings of love suppressed the activity of the areas of the brain that control critical thought.

As we approach the dreaded day where Cupid draws back his bow (and let’s his arrow go), be careful out there and keep your eyes open! Here’s a little gift for you from Sam Cooke.

Kara Church | Technical Editor, Advisory | Technical Publications

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