[lit-ideas] Re: "Bleach smells like bleach"
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 13:49:22 EST
In a message dated 2/7/2005 1:12:43 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, pas@xxxxxxxx
writes:
"sodium hypochlorite" (aka Javex,
aka Bleach) but I would think that your translation is actually 'calcium
hypochlorite' which is used as a more stable solid form
>incoherent and wrong.
So, are you suggesting that Frankie should have less patronisingly said:
"Bleach smells like sodium hypochlorite"
or
"Calcium hypochlorite smells like bleach".
What bothers me is the tautological subject-predicate repetition, as in:
"bleach smells (like) bleach"
-- as if Eddie (played by Morgan Freeman) didn't know _that_.
Cheers,
JL
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