Thoughts

So this is the type of thing I think about in the morning while showering...


I dunno if you know the song or not, but there's currently a popular song here whose lyrics go:


She don't love me like you
She don't know what you do


I know what most of you are thinking - the bad conjugation gets to me. Well, yes, but that's not what goes through my head about this.


What I think of is the ambivalence of the meaning since the phrasing is inexact. Does the singer mean


She don't love me like you do
She don't know what you do to me


(leading us to believe, perhaps, that his girlfriend doesn't love him the way this mystery lady does)?


or


She don't love me like she loves you
She don't know what you do


(leading us to believe, perhaps, that he pangs for a woman who loves a different man, but she doesn't know the terrible things this different man does)?

This is just the reason why I try to be sure to say


"He has more money than I have."


instead of


"He has more money than me."


Since, well, that means he has more money than he has of me, and last I checked I don't think I have been divvied up & parsed out.


So there's a peak into my mind this Friday morning... Have a good weekend, all!


Shaun

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Shaun Coley
scoley@gmail.com
London, UK