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Liveinjapan Posted 18 years ago
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Snow accumulates

0It is snowing heavily. Snow is going to accumulate tonight. 02br
00Is my sentence correct?02br
00Could you tell me better ways?02br
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0It's correct. I lived with it for many years, and I love it, but I can't think of another way to say it, in spite of many favorite poems on the subject. ) me stopping here/ To watch his woods fill up with snow.

— Avangi

  • 0It's correct.
  • I lived with it for many years, and I love it, but I can't think of another way to say it, in spite of many favorite poems on the subject.
  • ) me stopping here/ To watch his woods fill up with snow.
  • ) a silence deep and white.
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0It's correct. I lived with it for many years, and I love it, but I can't think of another way to say it, in spite of many favorite poems on the subject. I'll let you know if I do.02br
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00Whose woods these are I think I know/ His house is in the village, though/ He will not see/(mind?) me stopping here/ To watch his woods fill up with snow. (RF)02br
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0In my thesaurus, the only thing that comes close to "accumulate" (intransitive) is "amass," which is uniquely ugly. I'm reminded of a line from a French opera we did in college. It was about the burial of two lovers who had died. The French professor translated it as "On their bodies, cold and blemished, lightly may the earth amass." Everyone was horrified and tried to come up with another
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0Well, there's the less elegant "pile up". 05002br
00The snow is going to pile up tonight!02br
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0Thanks for giving me the wrods, Avangi and CJ. 0-
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