I'd have assumed "from the cat convert" included it.
Clearer, to me, would be "From AFTER the catalytic converter to the tailpipe would need to be replaced."
It's just an object. It doesn't mean what you think.
River ,'Objects In Space'
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Cass - Aug 31, 2010 5:37:09 pm PDT #805 of 30000
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Cass - Aug 31, 2010 5:37:28 pm PDT #806 of 30000
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Time to go read some Inception fic!
Awesome plan!
-t - Aug 31, 2010 5:39:53 pm PDT #807 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I will pretty much always ask "inclusive?" after any "from A to B" statement. Which doesn't always help, but it's my knee-jerk.
Steph L. - Aug 31, 2010 5:43:10 pm PDT #808 of 30000
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
I will pretty much always ask "inclusive?" after any "from A to B" statement. Which doesn't always help, but it's my knee-jerk.
I am indeed learning I need to do this. But if I said, "I am covered in mud from my head to my toes," I would think no one would assume I meant starting from my collarbone down. Or! "From soup to nuts," in my book, implies the inclusion of the soup. Although it's not a good comparison, really. But I wanted to say it.
(For the record, I meant [A], which included the catalytic converter. However, I do not think that *I* have to have the catalytic converter replaced [knock on wood], thank god.)
-t - Aug 31, 2010 5:47:51 pm PDT #809 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Those are two examples I would not feel the need to question. Possibly because there is an implication of completion in the very statement ("I am covered" to me implies completion even before the "from head to toe", though I suppose if you followed it with "wrist to elbow" or something I would again be confused) which in turn implies inclusion. Or perhaps just because that's what people mean when they that, and if I heard people talking about catalytic converters and tailpipes all the time I would also know what they were likely to mean in that case, as well.
I have officially given this too much thought.
Aims - Aug 31, 2010 5:51:13 pm PDT #810 of 30000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Crisis averted - plush unicorn with cape has been found.
Steph L. - Aug 31, 2010 5:55:48 pm PDT #811 of 30000
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Crisis averted - plush unicorn with cape has been found.
Our long national nightmare is over!
Maria - Aug 31, 2010 5:57:46 pm PDT #812 of 30000
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift
Our long national nightmare is over!
Not quite. FOX News is still on the air.
Trudy Booth - Aug 31, 2010 6:03:31 pm PDT #813 of 30000
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
THAT'S why we needed a caped unicorn, Maria.
Maria - Aug 31, 2010 6:06:37 pm PDT #814 of 30000
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift
I don't even think the sparkledust can counteract Glenn Beck. I feel badly for the caped unicorn; the poor animal has its work cut out.