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Perfect Stranger Posted 14 years ago
Grammar
A sheep?
Hi,
This quotation comes from a movie:
You wanna kill me like a man or you wanna kill me like a sheep?
1. First of all... can we really say "a sheep" ?
2. Second of all, of course the man who utters these words wants to challenge the other man and asks him whether he wants to fight like a real man or slaughter him as if he was (a) sheep. But! Don't you think this sentence - grammatically speaking - might imply that actually the second man is (a) sheep? It's like... are you going to kill me as if you were (a) sheep?
I'm not sure how to explain it but... the word like makes me wonder here.
This quotation comes from a movie:
You wanna kill me like a man or you wanna kill me like a sheep?
1. First of all... can we really say "a sheep" ?
2. Second of all, of course the man who utters these words wants to challenge the other man and asks him whether he wants to fight like a real man or slaughter him as if he was (a) sheep. But! Don't you think this sentence - grammatically speaking - might imply that actually the second man is (a) sheep? It's like... are you going to kill me as if you were (a) sheep?
I'm not sure how to explain it but... the word like makes me wonder here.
Top answer
1. Sure: one sheep, two sheep. 2.
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- Sure: one sheep, two sheep.
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- ' but maybe the speaker is worrying about his own bravery.
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1. Sure: one sheep, two sheep.
2. It's usually, 'Do you want to die like a man or die like a sheep?' but maybe the speaker is worrying about his own bravery.
2. It's usually, 'Do you want to die like a man or die like a sheep?' but maybe the speaker is worrying about his own bravery.
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Thanks.
Would you therefore say that my doubts are unjustifiable? I don't know why but when I look at this part of the sentence ...do you want to kill me like a sheep an image of a sheep pops out in my head... this sentence seems to be grammatically inaccurate to me, or maybe it's the way the word like is used here.
It's like... what's the way sheep mi
Would you therefore say that my doubts are unjustifiable? I don't know why but when I look at this part of the sentence ...do you want to kill me like a sheep an image of a sheep pops out in my head... this sentence seems to be grammatically inaccurate to me, or maybe it's the way the word like is used here.
It's like... what's the way sheep mi
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Perfect Stranger, I don't know if you guys know what I'm trying to say...Yes, I understand. Because you are preoccupied with the grammar, you do not take into proper consideration that most language can be literally ambiguous and that it is a part of the communicative process that the interlocutors are expected to use common knowledge and common sense to eli
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