wordplay: (Yale linguistics inverse)
wordplay ([personal profile] wordplay) wrote2007-04-28 09:37 am

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Marc and I were talking about this this morning and I need more opinions! Tell me about these sentences of English - do they work for you?

[Poll #974955]


Linguists, please maintain radio silence about this for a little bit till the data comes in. Just checking, that's all. :)

[identity profile] wordplay.livejournal.com 2007-04-28 02:23 pm (UTC)(link)
The original sentence does, in fact, use the word 'lighting' but I have a long history of reading 'lightning' there - it's much more dramatic that way, no? :D Good to see I stay true to form, at any rate. It shouldn't make a difference in terms of the structure of the sentence, though, so that's interesting.