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brin_bellway) wrote2022-10-10 10:35 pm
brin_bellway) wrote2022-10-10 10:35 pm
English is a bullshit language (like all the others)
Do you ever think about how the difference between "I don't think the world's a mere commodity/I'm only acting under orders" and "I don't think the world is convinced/That we should merely follow orders" is a *single phoneme*, and that phoneme difference is "mmm" versus "nnn"?
(I always thought it was the first one, but apparently lyrics sites say the second. Can't tell from context: they both fit, although I do think option 1 fits a bit better.)
(I always thought it was the first one, but apparently lyrics sites say the second. Can't tell from context: they both fit, although I do think option 1 fits a bit better.)