Kid and I have been trying to figure out where the emphasis belongs and cracking up at the implied pragmatics
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Kid and I have been trying to figure out where the emphasis belongs and cracking up at the implied pragmatics
Some days the bear eats YOU
Some days the bear EATS you
Some days the BEAR eats you
Some days THE bear eats you <--- ????
Some DAYS the bear eats you < -- ??
SOME days the bear eats youCan anybody suggest a pragmatic frame that makes number 4 or 5 work?
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Cassandra Granade 🏳️⚧️replied to Jeremy Kahn last edited by
@trochee Given "the" is often used to differentiate a singular entity so prominent as to deserve special emphasis (silly ex: Dwayne Johnson is not a rock, he's The Rock), I could read (4) as a wrestling heel named "The Bear" chasing someone down.
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Jeremy Kahnreplied to Cassandra Granade 🏳️⚧️ last edited by
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Kid claims he came up with that one already, but I couldn't and still can't make it work -
@[email protected] @[email protected] may I also suggest it’s about that hot fuckboy from the cooking show eating you
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Asta [AMP]replied to Jeremy Kahn last edited by [email protected]
@[email protected] @[email protected] you know, after I wrote it, I realize it was WAY more sexual than I intended (edit: I genuinely meant regular old cannibalism, not… uh…)
For all my CW: vore jokes that don’t involve anything… -
@trochee @texttheater 4) in the woods lived five bears, four scrawny ones, and a fifth, the king, the monster, the Uber-bear, encountering any of them was bad news, but some days were worse than bad: some days THE bear eats you…
