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Hollint Posted 4 years ago
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What does this sentence mean?
"Looking for meaning or logic in death can sometimes defile the memories of those we've lost."
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" It should be "our memories", not "the memories". Those we lost cannot remember anything because they are dead. " When you go to the plural, the idiomatic sense of "honor/defile/etc.
- " It should be "our memories", not "the memories".
- Those we lost cannot remember anything because they are dead.
- " When you go to the plural, the idiomatic sense of "honor/defile/etc.
- his memory", what we remember of him, gets lost.
- In my book, that kind of mistake invalidates any bumper-sticker, fortune-cookie philosophy the writer is trying to fob off on me.
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hollint"Looking for meaning or logic in death can sometimes defile the memories of those we've lost."
It should be "our memories", not "the memories". Those we lost cannot remember anything because they are dead. Better is to stick to the expression and make it "defile the memory of one we've lost." When you go to the plural, the idiomatic sense of "honor/d
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