Re: Let's
get ready to rumble!
Posted by TheFallen on
October 12, 2002 In Reply to: Re: Best foot
forward posted by R. Berg on October 11, 2002
: : What does
"get what's coming to them" as an argument in favor of thing have to do with the
phrase at all?
: : "I'm done cleaning the bathroom.
: : If you think that,
you've got another think coming to you"
: : I think we all agree on the intended
meaning of this phrase as used here.
: : Why do we agree? Because there is a
complete thought expressed in the reply. The inference that the original speaker
is incorrect in what he thinks, ie., the bathroom is clean and therefore he is
done, is plainly made, by the note that he must think again before his thought
processes correctly assess the situation.
: : "I'm done cleaning the bathroom.
:
: If you think that, you've got another thing coming"
: : What is the idea intended
by this?
: : How does that imply that the speaker/thinker is incorrect and
the bathroom is not clean nor is he done? Certainly it makes no sense that "another
thing" is cleaning the bathroom again, that is not another thing, but rather the
same thing. Is the other thing the temporal state of 'not being done'? hardly
qualifies as a thing.
: :
: : As for best foot forward implying three or
more feet - how?
: Here's how: "better" properly applies in comparisons of two
things, "best" in comparisons involving three or more.
In the red corner, I
give you Rowdy Roddy Rube, and in the blue corner, I give you Ms. R. "Terminatrix"
Berg - may the best man (or woman) win.
- Re: Rumble R.
Berg 10/12/02 (2)
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