Originally posted by Nocturnal Submission
View Post
Announcement
Collapse
No announcement yet.
Wrong Word Choices in Lyrics
Collapse
X
-
Originally posted by Nocturnal Submission View PostAbsolutely.
"When she dealt out the rations,
With some or other passions"
All over the place. What's the second line even approximating to? I mean, I know what he's getting at but he's chucking words in to make it scan.
What about something like "A rich array of passions" instead?
Comment
-
Originally posted by jwdd27 View Post30 minutes is also a short labour for a first time mother, I would have thought.
Comment
-
Originally posted by Walt Flanagans Dog View Post
The labour may have been well underway by the time they got there. I took my "her" to the maternity ward and 11 minutes later we had a daughter. I wouldn't recommend it, but it can be done. Admittedly that was our second, the first was nearer two hours.
Comment
-
- Mar 2008
- 19042
- Revelling In The Hole
- England, Chelsea and Tooting and Mitcham. And Surrey CCC. And Wimbledon Dons Speedway (RIP)
- Nairn's Cheese Oatcake
Originally posted by Sporting View Post
Perhaps naively, I had no idea that second and subsequent labours were shorter.
I'd heard that the second labour was shorter than the first and decided to do a bit of research. I asked a few of my wife's friends and it seemed as though the second one was something like four times quicker than the first, as a very rough average. Our first kid took about 18 hours to pop out so I reckoned on 4-and-a-half hours for the second, which I wanted to know for timing the rush to the hospital.
It was actually 85 minutes from waters breaking in the middle of the night to the birth, which was a bit quick for everyone's liking!
Comment
-
Originally posted by Felicity, I guess so View Post
I have a friend who drinks, and calls it, 'T & G' because his mixing proportions are reversed, so I think that's allowed (the lyric- I 'd never drink one)
- Likes 2
Comment
-
Originally posted by tee rex View PostI'm all for grooving to the smooth sounds of ABC, but this line from Look of Love has bugged me for decades ...
"If you judge a book by the cover
Then you judge the look by the lover"
To get to the rhyme they threw logic overboard. It's the wrong way round.
The reason for lines like that Peter Gabriel one is pretty straightforward though - the "will" rhyme pushes the song's momentum, whereas "...they probably would" would have killed it and sounded wrong in a different way.
Both problems would have been resolved if he'd sung "If looks can kill they probably will" and I would bet 50p that at some point he realised this and was mildly annoyed that it hadn't occurred to him during recording.
Comment
-
'If 'kill' they could
They probably would'
But then Pete would've needed to flag up 'looks' in the previous line.
And it would've been an even-more-atrocious line.
Originally posted by Sporting View PostIf I was is perfectly acceptable.
However, my guess is that this will be one of those 'language is fluid' arguments, in which anything should be allowed if it's what some people say.
Comment
-
Originally posted by Sporting View Post
If I was is perfectly acceptable.
Comment
-
Originally posted by DPDPDPDP View Post
Sporting, there are instances where ‘if I was’ is correct as opposed to ‘if I were’. In the context of Midge’s song, it would be grammatically correct to use ‘if I were’. I could give you full grammatical explanation but it would bore the pants off you!
Comment
-
Originally posted by Sporting View Post
No it wouldn't.
Comment
Comment