mujibmk's is ok, but i can look at it as a conversation between two people: - "Time flies". "I can't. They fly too fast." what this means is, this bloke asks another bloke to time flies...as in, take a timer and calculate how fast flies are flying. the second bloke of course thinks the first bole is bonkers, and tries giving a legitimate excuse for not timing flies. So there....
a) Two heads are always better than one. b) it's much more interesting, trying to imagine this as a Laurel-Hardy kind of a conversation...amazing possibilities of "what happens next?" :-D
Time flies, like an arrow; Fruit flies like a banana...
ReplyDelete"Time flies? I can't; they fly too fast!"
ReplyDeleteThat doesn't look right nor makes any sense. Tell me how.
mujibmk's is ok, but i can look at it as a conversation between two people: -
ReplyDelete"Time flies".
"I can't. They fly too fast."
what this means is, this bloke asks another bloke to time flies...as in, take a timer and calculate how fast flies are flying. the second bloke of course thinks the first bole is bonkers, and tries giving a legitimate excuse for not timing flies. So there....
I repeat, mujibmk's version is correct too.:-D
Bingo !
ReplyDeleteOr, put a question mark after Time flies, to eliminate the second bloke from the conversation.
"Time flies ? I can't do that ! They fly too fast."
I brought two blokes into the picture because:-
ReplyDeletea) Two heads are always better than one.
b) it's much more interesting, trying to imagine this as a Laurel-Hardy kind of a conversation...amazing possibilities of "what happens next?" :-D
>Time flies, like an arrow; Fruit flies like a banana...
ReplyDeleteThere shouldn't be a comma after 'Time flies' - the sentence doesn't make sense then. Otherwise it's vintage Groucho....
nice! thanks.
ReplyDeletethey key is the '?' after 'time flies' i guess.
oops. thx for the correction. i had no idea it was a marxism!
ReplyDeleteSo I was correct without understanding the meaning. I hadn't thought of Musca domestica and that's why it didn't make any sense. Silly me.
ReplyDeleteHow did the quiz go?