| Title: | The Joy of Lex |
| Notice: | A Notes File even your grammar could love |
| Moderator: | THEBAY::SYSTEM |
| Created: | Fri Feb 28 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Mon Jun 02 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1192 |
| Total number of notes: | 42769 |
Have you noticed the Merrill-Lynch advertisement during the
World Series?
"... To know no boundaries is what this world should be".
This sounds to be in the same category as "Winston tastes good
like a cigarette should".
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
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| 262.1 | Eh? | MODEL::YARBROUGH | Mon Oct 27 1986 09:00 | 6 | |
Hmmm. Parses OK to my ear. Try rearranging the words and punctuation a bit,
changing only the style, and it comes out
"What this world should be is: To know no boundaries".
There are certainly a lot worse examples out there.
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| 262.2 | DECWET::SHUSTER | Swell-elegant | Mon Oct 27 1986 19:08 | 13 | |
Or how about:
"No world-boundaries-to-be: know what this is?"
The original and .1's modification are both poor English, and don't
make grammatical sense.
Perhaps they were talking about grammatical boundaries?
By the way, are those words in the original James Bond tune (For
Your Eyes Only)?
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