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From: lorenmo@microsoft.com (Loren Moore)
Subject: Re: 'cause it's so hard to see
Message-ID: <1993Feb11.031200.19769@microsoft.com>
Date: 11 Feb 93 03:12:00 GMT
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In article <930205194620_555063.0_CHL109-1@CompuServe.COM> MJM@ZYLAB.MHS.CompuServe.COM wrote:
> Jeffy offers:
> > occasionally use incorrect grammar.  My favorite (and the most
> > personally annoying!) example is Gabriels "Games Without Frontiers"
> > in which he sings "If looks could kill they probably will."  There's an
> 
> Man, this has *always* bothered since I first heard the song.
> Just grates on my linguistic sensibilities.
> 
> But, I have *never* thought it was unintentional.

> 
> -mjm 
> 
> 

have you ever thought that it was a song about children, and (at least
in some ways) from their perspective. So, it would make sense to be 
mislinguatized. Besides that, poetry doesn't have to be grammatical at
all. If art were only good when it was 'perfect' (and in what sense of 
the word?), then it would be a dull world indeed.

daemien
who personally believes pg is god.

"There's an angel standing in the sun. 
And he's crying with a loud voice.
'This is the supper of the mighty one,
king of kings, lord of lords' 
as her turns to take his children home
to take them to the new jerusalem....."
Supper's Ready - Genesis; Foxtrot