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Being a good country girl, my wife jumped right in to defend the use of where with American, saying that it is a state of being, and therefore where is appropriate to use with it. Gotta love her.CathyCA wrote:Stupid lyric of the day: "I'm proud to be an American where at least I know I'm free, and I won't forget the men who died, who gave that right to me."
where at least?
Let's Go Duke! 
I think the qualm of the lyric is the "at least", not the "where".bjornolf wrote:Being a good country girl, my wife jumped right in to defend the use of where with American, saying that it is a state of being, and therefore where is appropriate to use with it. Gotta love her.CathyCA wrote:Stupid lyric of the day: "I'm proud to be an American where at least I know I'm free, and I won't forget the men who died, who gave that right to me."
where at least?
My first qualm was "at least," but when I tried to diagram the sentence, the "where" part jumped out at me.CameronBornAndBred wrote:I think the qualm of the lyric is the "at least", not the "where".bjornolf wrote:Being a good country girl, my wife jumped right in to defend the use of where with American, saying that it is a state of being, and therefore where is appropriate to use with it. Gotta love her.CathyCA wrote:Stupid lyric of the day: "I'm proud to be an American where at least I know I'm free, and I won't forget the men who died, who gave that right to me."
where at least?
I don't get the problem with the "at least" at all. "At least I know I'm free." In other words, even if everything else goes to hell, as an American, at least I know I'm still free. I had far more problem with the where, but my wife's explanation shows me that it's technically correct even if pretty awkward. Again, state of being, like "he's at a place in his life right now where he's pretty happy." It's not LITERALLY a place, but we still use where. Same thing with American. When interpreted as a state of being, it makes where perfectly acceptable in context. Like I said, I don't get the problem with the "at least" at all. He even explains it in the song, talking about how even if he lost everything and had to start all over, it'd be okay, cause he'd still be a free American.CathyCA wrote:My first qualm was "at least," but when I tried to diagram the sentence, the "where" part jumped out at me.CameronBornAndBred wrote: I think the qualm of the lyric is the "at least", not the "where".
If "where" were correct, then the lyric should be "And I'm proud to be IN AMERICA where. . ."
Let's Go Duke! Ditto! 15-14 Federer, down 0-30, get it back Andy!Sue71 wrote:Go Andy!
And how about the one after it where he's lugging his trophies... that was funny.CameronBornAndBred wrote:LOL @ Nike's commercial congratulating Federer on 15...
"Thanks alot for making us look SO AVERAGE!" --John McEnroe
I've been screaming to post since this subthread started up, but you know, this SPAMHAUS thing is really ridiculous. And now I have to go out to the field in a couple of days.bjornolf wrote:I don't get the problem with the "at least" at all. "At least I know I'm free." In other words, even if everything else goes to hell, as an American, at least I know I'm still free. I had far more problem with the where, but my wife's explanation shows me that it's technically correct even if pretty awkward. Again, state of being, like "he's at a place in his life right now where he's pretty happy." It's not LITERALLY a place, but we still use where. Same thing with American. When interpreted as a state of being, it makes where perfectly acceptable in context. Like I said, I don't get the problem with the "at least" at all. He even explains it in the song, talking about how even if he lost everything and had to start all over, it'd be okay, cause he'd still be a free American.CathyCA wrote:My first qualm was "at least," but when I tried to diagram the sentence, the "where" part jumped out at me.CameronBornAndBred wrote: I think the qualm of the lyric is the "at least", not the "where".
If "where" were correct, then the lyric should be "And I'm proud to be IN AMERICA where. . ."
The French Canal+ coverage had no commercials.CameronBornAndBred wrote:LOL @ Nike's commercial congratulating Federer on 15...
"Thanks alot for making us look SO AVERAGE!" --John McEnroe
No passcode enabled...duh. I always found it an inconvenience. The phone has been disabled so the damage is contained. Now to figure out what to do next.DevilAlumna wrote:Bummer, Ymo. Any chance your cell phone has a passcode? (It's a crackberry, I assume it has corp e-mail on it?)
Mine has a security code, mandated by work (because I have work e-mail/contacts on it), that if the code gets mistyped 5 times, everything gets wiped off the phone, including whatever's on the storage card, and hard resets to factory condition. If I mistype it 2 or 3 times, I start to get REALLLY careful. I can also wipe it remotely, by logging in to my web e-mail.
They would have to guess the passcodes...but the ability to use anything other than a 4 digit code is unnerving. Everything is backed up, so from that standpoint I'm good.Sue71 wrote:That really sucks, Ymo. Do you back it up on your computer by any chance? What about going into the FF accounts and changing the passcodes now (hopefully before anything happens)?
