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Grammar peeve
Jun. 28th, 2010 09:58 amIn the song Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic, there are the lyrics
"I resolve to call her up a thousand times a day
And ask her if she`ll marry me in some old fashioned way"
Every time I hear them, I'm thrown out of the song, wondering about the grammar. In the first line, is the singer resolving a thousand times a day, or is the resolve to call her a thousand times (oh so wonderfully stalkishly)? In the second line, is the proposal the old-fashioned part, or the wedding? Leaving me with four options for what's intended. Yes, lyrical license and all that, but the song has never worked for me because of this ambiguity, however likely it is that I can guess the intent.
"I resolve to call her up a thousand times a day
And ask her if she`ll marry me in some old fashioned way"
Every time I hear them, I'm thrown out of the song, wondering about the grammar. In the first line, is the singer resolving a thousand times a day, or is the resolve to call her a thousand times (oh so wonderfully stalkishly)? In the second line, is the proposal the old-fashioned part, or the wedding? Leaving me with four options for what's intended. Yes, lyrical license and all that, but the song has never worked for me because of this ambiguity, however likely it is that I can guess the intent.