Timeline for 'I eat kittens before ponies' vs 'I eat kittens before I eat ponies'
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| Aug 10, 2018 at 3:05 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Jun 22, 2015 at 16:27 | comment | added | Chris Morris | I actually like @SvenYargs comment and would accept is an answer, as it shows how #1 for both sentences is ambiguous, which would lead me to pick #2 for sentence 1 and #3 for sentence 2 (or completely reword the sentences). | |
| Jun 22, 2015 at 9:35 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackEnglish/status/612916912155136001 | ||
| Jun 21, 2015 at 7:49 | comment | added | Sven Yargs | @NickVolynkin: Thank you, but my comment doesn't really answer the OP's question; it just complicates it further. | |
| Jun 21, 2015 at 7:45 | comment | added | Nick Volynkin | @SvenYargs this is worth being an answer, not a comment. | |
| Jun 21, 2015 at 7:12 | comment | added | Jim | I hope these are all hypothetical: I would eat kittens before I’d eat ponies. I’d put sprinkles on unicorns before lumberjacks. | |
| Jun 21, 2015 at 5:32 | comment | added | Sven Yargs | Note that "before X" can be understood as "in front of X," which can make interpreting the sense you intend more difficult—particularly in situations where, for example, "I put sprinkles on unicorns in front of lumberjacks" seems every bit as realistic as either "I put sprinkles on unicorns before I put sprinkles on lumberjacks" or "I put sprinkles on unicorns before lumberjacks put sprinkles on unicorns." | |
| Jun 21, 2015 at 5:27 | answer | added | Hugh | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jun 21, 2015 at 5:12 | answer | added | Misha R | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jun 21, 2015 at 4:53 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | The kitten sentences are all grammatical. Unicorn sentence 2 is awkward, I might omit "on" in front of lumberjacks, and replace it with "the" (before the lumberjacks). Sentence 3 is grammatical but a bit redundant. | |
| Jun 21, 2015 at 4:47 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | Seriously? Kittens before ponies, are they some sort of starter course? Do you eat their fur as well :) Are you writing a fairy tale by any chance? | |
| Jun 21, 2015 at 4:35 | history | asked | Chris Morris | CC BY-SA 3.0 |