nightspore
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Posted: Mar. 10 2010, 08:19 |
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Quote (Matt @ Mar. 10 2010, 04:53) | [quote=larstangmark,M I think of "changing seasons" as a description of the seasons themselves involving change such as flowering in spring or leaves dropping in autumn so it seems fine to me that the "changing seasons" can come and go!
And as for a jailbreak, I'm sure there are plenty of towns with jails or cells in more than one location therefore somewhere near *a* jail rather than *the* jail!
Maybe I just wasn't born to be a pedant (or an English teacher! ) |
Ha ha, I'll concede that one, Matt. Now let's see you explain "4 a.m. in the morning"! Actually, you probably could; you could probably say that "4 a.m" is actually and metaphorically a state of mind, and that you need to add "in the morning" to make it clear that you're talking about a time of day!
Another lyric that really grates - and I hate the song anyway - is from "Family Man": "Leave me alone, I'm a family man/And my bark is much worse than my bite". Logically - given that the character is trying to be threatening - he should say "my bite is much worse than my bark!".
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