"just when i thought nothing could be weirder than ..."
A YouTube user sent a comment about a movie scene from a movie ("Mother!"):
"just when i thought nothing could be weirder than midsommar"
Someone else replied:
"...this came before Midsommar"
«She didn't specify the setting in which she was referring to Mother! and so the default setting is the order of appearance. So chronologically. If she wanted to refer to her specific movie order, which she was, she should've phrased like so: "Just when I thought Midsommar was the weirdest movie I've seen"»
Is that rule concerning the expression "Just when I thought..." correct?
Thanks in advance.
Top answer
" correct? Not really. "Just when I thought X" is a very loose comment.
- " correct?
- Not really.
- "Just when I thought X" is a very loose comment.
- It stems from things like "Just when you thought it was safe to X …", the ellipsis signifying some calamity revealing X to be anything but safe.
- If you need to regard the sequence of events as important, which they are not so much, consider that she saw Midsommar before she saw Mother!
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anonymousIs that rule concerning the expression "Just when I thought..." correct?
Not really. "Just when I thought X" is a very loose comment. It stems from things like "Just when you thought it was safe to X …", the ellipsis signifying some calamity revealing X to be anything but safe. If you need to regard the sequence of events as important, which they a
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