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Madhulk Posted 17 years ago
Vocabulary

End up here...

Lois: Kara Kent.
I'm your cousin's friend Lois whose jeans you've borrowed
on more than one occasion. Is this a metaphore of some kind or not?

Kara: Right. Lois.

Lois: I know you've got amnesia.
You must, if your type is jaiIhouse chic. What's going on?

Kara: FinIey's just a busboy. That's aII.

Lois: Great. This doesn't exactIy Iook Iike overtime. He imprisoned them in a cage.
How did we end up here? Tell me what happened with you?

Kara: About a month ago, I Iost my memory.
I wandered off the streets (she stopped wanderind?)and into a diner
where I met a waitress.
She gave me her couch, (havened her?) got me my job. Everyone at the diner
took me in Iike famiIy. The staff were like a family to her?
  

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Madhulk Lois: Kara Kent. I'm your cousin's friend Lois whose jeans you've borrowed on more than one occasion. Is this a metaphore of some kind or not?

— Avangi

  • Madhulk Lois: Kara Kent.
  • I'm your cousin's friend Lois whose jeans you've borrowed on more than one occasion.
  • Is this a metaphore of some kind or not?
  • I don't think so.
  • When you're speaking to an old acquaintance who has amnesia, it's natural to mention something you have in common - a past experience which might ring a bell.
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MadhulkLois: Kara Kent.
I'm your cousin's friend Lois whose jeans you've borrowed
on more than one occasion. Is this a metaphore of some kind or not? I don't think so. When you're speaking to an old acquaintance who has amnesia, it's natural to mention something you have in common - a past experience which might ring a bell.
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Just one more question on this one.
Lois: Kara Kent.
I'm your cousin's friend Lois whose jeans you've borrowed
on more than one occasion.
Kara has borrowed her cousin's jeans or Lois'?
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Cousin's friend = Lois. That's whose jeans she borrowed. I'm assuming Clark is her cousin. I assume she didn't borrow HIS jeans.
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Thanks, Barbara! I assumed it was Clark's jeans
because maybe he gave her his mother's jeans.
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MadhulkI'm your cousin's friend Lois whose jeans you've borrowed on more than one occasion.
I may be wrong on this, but I have a feeling that in addition to GG's logical reason for whose jeans these are, there's also a grammatical reason.

I'm the person who loves you.

I'm Bob's friend[,] who loves you.

There's no way this c
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