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Paultx Posted 17 years ago
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Is this phrase right?
I was watching a women billiards tournament rerun on ESPN last week, and I had set the TV set to show the closed captions. Well, I know closed captions are not always accurate. But I read a phrase that I need you to tell me is correct or not.
In a part of the program called "What's in your bag?" one of the players began to take stuff out of her bag, and the closed captions showed this:
"...and the room key for my way back when."
Is it correct?
In a part of the program called "What's in your bag?" one of the players began to take stuff out of her bag, and the closed captions showed this:
"...and the room key for my way back when."
Is it correct?
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The only way I can see to parse this is to make "way back when" into a noun, referring, presumably, to a time in her past life. I don't know how much sense that makes. Otherwise it could, as you say, be a caption error, or possibly an unfinished or muddled sentence (which can happen easily enough in conversation).
- The only way I can see to parse this is to make "way back when" into a noun, referring, presumably, to a time in her past life.
- I don't know how much sense that makes.
- Otherwise it could, as you say, be a caption error, or possibly an unfinished or muddled sentence (which can happen easily enough in conversation).
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The only way I can see to parse this is to make "way back when" into a noun, referring, presumably, to a time in her past life. I don't know how much sense that makes.
Otherwise it could, as you say, be a caption error, or possibly an unfinished or muddled sentence (which can happen easily enough in conversation).
Otherwise it could, as you say, be a caption error, or possibly an unfinished or muddled sentence (which can happen easily enough in conversation).
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