The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to Microblog Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoBut can you imagine if it were?lemmy.worldimagemessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up1460arrow-down114
arrow-up1446arrow-down1imageBut can you imagine if it were?lemmy.worldThe Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to Microblog Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square10fedilink
minus-squareGork@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·1 year agoYounger me? I’d want to change the meaning of that word to this now even at my current age.
minus-squareThief_of_Crows@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·1 year agoBut then you lose great puns, which are half the reason English is such a great language. Consider “American Idiot”: Welcome to a new kind of tension All across the alien nation Where everything isn’t meant to be okay. The song works significantly better by using a pun, to say that it’s a nation of the alienated.
minus-squareZachariah@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoright now you’re older you’s “younger me”
Younger me? I’d want to change the meaning of that word to this now even at my current age.
But then you lose great puns, which are half the reason English is such a great language. Consider “American Idiot”:
Welcome to a new kind of tension All across the alien nation Where everything isn’t meant to be okay.
The song works significantly better by using a pun, to say that it’s a nation of the alienated.
right now you’re older you’s “younger me”