Snowwomen@discuss.tchncs.de to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days ago"A guitarist who's also an astronaut" sounds more impressive than "An astronaut who plays the guitar", despite both meaning the same thing.message-squaremessage-square26fedilinkarrow-up1237arrow-down19
arrow-up1228arrow-down1message-square"A guitarist who's also an astronaut" sounds more impressive than "An astronaut who plays the guitar", despite both meaning the same thing.Snowwomen@discuss.tchncs.de to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square26fedilink
minus-squareRevan343@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up35·edit-23 days agoLots of people play guitar, ‘a guitarist’ implies a certain level of skill. Consider that you only swapped ‘guitarist’, but not ‘astronaut’. A guitarist who’s been to space isn’t near as impressive as a guitarist who’s also an astronaut
Lots of people play guitar, ‘a guitarist’ implies a certain level of skill.
Consider that you only swapped ‘guitarist’, but not ‘astronaut’. A guitarist who’s been to space isn’t near as impressive as a guitarist who’s also an astronaut