Took me a while to figure out
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Only a time traveler knows how like the wild murals and engravings of them some of the ancients can look.
I had to read the sentence a dozen times before I made sense of it. What about you, guys?
Obviously it works like this:
X is like Y.
How like Y is X?
Only Z knows how like Y X is.
It still sounds a bit weird to me. I'd rather say "Only Z knows how much like Y X is."
I had to read the sentence a dozen times before I made sense of it. What about you, guys?
Obviously it works like this:
X is like Y.
How like Y is X?
Only Z knows how like Y X is.
It still sounds a bit weird to me. I'd rather say "Only Z knows how much like Y X is."
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Weird it is, so what? Maybe it is a style of Yoda, isn't it?
Isn't it "How some of the ancients can look like the wild murals and engravings of them?"
Последний раз редактировалось Michelangelo 29 окт 2020, 12:01, всего редактировалось 1 раз.
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I may guess that there was a time traveller, and he was looking at some of the ancients, and thought "Gosh! How they look like the wild murals and engravings of them!"
Последний раз редактировалось Michelangelo 29 окт 2020, 12:11, всего редактировалось 1 раз.
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The Soldiers that come through the Door are looking for a good time, sure, but they're hurt real bad too, every one of them, deep down in their minds and hearts, if not always in their bodies or so you can see it right away.
This one still puzzles me. How is the 'or so' part supposed to work?
This one still puzzles me. How is the 'or so' part supposed to work?
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That is, the 'or' part clarifies the meaning of the phrase 'hurt in the bodies'? But why is this clarification needed? Everyone knows that injuries in the body are more evident than mental ones.
Maybe the logic there is like this: not(A or B) = not A and not B. That is, they were not always hurt in the bodies and not always in such a way that can be seen right away (if they were hurt mentally).
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It seems to me I could see it now
OR SO here is "if not always in their bodies [or so] or somehow otherwise that you can see it right away.
I.e. even if you cannot always see their injuries, they are still hurt real bad too, every one of them, deep down in their minds and hearts
OR SO here is "if not always in their bodies [or so] or somehow otherwise that you can see it right away.
I.e. even if you cannot always see their injuries, they are still hurt real bad too, every one of them, deep down in their minds and hearts
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Only a time traveler knows in which way some of ancients can look (at? or see?) the wild murals and engravings of them.
Only a time traveler knows if some of the ancients look like the wild murals and engravings of them.
Brainfreaking )
The Soldiers that come through the Door are looking for a good time, sure, but they're hurt real bad too, every one of them, deep down in their minds and hearts, if not always in their bodies or something like that (head, limbs), so you can see it right away.
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Are they of the same meaning? Or you just don't know what is correct?
You try to make to figure it out even more difficult, or so?