Good evening, lovely people! Would you be able to help me out with a grammar question, perchance?
A friend just emailed me the following question:
My dad and I were discussing 2 people and he said they were "living in other other's' pockets." Please can you put us out of our misery by telling me what part of speech that falls into as we are stuck trying to find the word. We have tried oxymoron and paradox so please help.
Initially I thought she wanted to know what to do with the apostrophe, but evidently not. (Although, come to that - to my horror, I'm not entirely sure about the apostrophe! My gut feeling is other's, since it pertains to 2 people, each of which has only one other - each living in the other's pocket...yes? No? Ack!) However, I realise that actually that's not what she's asking. It's not an oxymoron, clearly - I'd have said a metaphor, surely? I mean, I suppose it's paradoxical, but I wouldn't have termed it a paradox because it's metaphorical anyway...
Help me, ObiWanKaHivemind! You're my only hope!
I thought the expression was "each other's pockets" or is Fay's usage a lovely Britishism?
Sorry, no - I presume she meant "living in each other's pockets", and until you highlighted the typo I didn't even register it - I simply cut'n'pasted her question from the email. But bless you for giving us the benefit of the doubt!
Erika - yeah, that's my thought: metaphors can be exaggerated and impossible (such as claiming that A is in B's pocket whilst B is in A's pocket) because they're, you know,
metaphors.
The laws of reality are in abeyance. Whereas to call something a paradox suggests to me that it's something rather more substantial. Although I'm not expressing this well.
I think metaphor.
Also, I braved ice to run errands and decided to do other errands tomorrow - you know when it's supposed to melt. I want it to melt!
Meanwhile, today, having picked up my prescriptions, dropped off my rent and my lease renewal and picked up some food for today and tonight - I am recording the "director's cut" versions of Torchwood that are up. (We're losing 2.1 and 2.2 tomorrow, so I figured I'd catch up.)
The good news: I have completed my online tax returns (minus one piece of information I need fro our daycare) and I'm getting money back this year, so woo hoo!
The bad news: I seem to have broken our printer. BOO.
What was the setting of the MacBeth, Jesse? It sounds like a fairly modern setting, given the lack of bowties in early Scotland.
I would say 30s-ish, except Mrs. Macduff was in basically modern clothes. It was pretty fascist-ish.
anyone remember the name of the catalog site to register to get off mailing lists?
Jesse, how was the crossword tourny?
Catalogchoice I think. I forget if it's .com or .org, though.
I have shiny new toes! And I took some pants in to be altered and they are taking three inches off my waist and hips. Paul Gross Arms!
Now I need to go to the computer store and buy a new printer and router but I'm lazy and tired.
