Jingle bells
Good morning.
A question for mother tongue speakers.
When you hear 'Jingle bells, jingle bells...' what do you understand?
What is the subject of the sentence?
Is it a 'you'? Or are they the bells? It may refer to a type of bell (so simply a name), but then you have 'jingle all the way', so jingle must be a verb...
Thank you.
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slocawber A question for mother tongue speakers. ' what do you understand? We try not to analyze it.
- slocawber A question for mother tongue speakers.
- ' what do you understand?
- We try not to analyze it.
- It causes too much angst.
- I imagine it's said to the bells, telling them to jingle.
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slocawberA question for mother tongue speakers. When you hear 'Jingle bells, jingle bells...' what do you understand?
We try not to analyze it. It causes too much angst.
0slocawberWhen you hear 'Jingle bells, jingle bells...' what do you understand?
An excellent question. We learn the song in early childhood, before our grammar has gelled. I would have to invent a category for it. It sounds to me like a comment, an observation that our little world is filled with jingle bells—the sound and glint of them—the kind of ball-shap
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