Kadoober
Get Me A Vodka Rocks… And A Piece Of Toast.
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Amonet - you are right about the interview not explaining EG's phrase about sending the picture to 'their dad'.
Imagine that you have no context for this interview whatsoever. The way she says this leads one to think that she knows these people loitering outside of her home, and she is going to send a picture of them to THEIR father. But that can't be, because she has chosen to introduce them to the listener as strangers. It feels weird and wrong, even without context. I just took a nice long walk on my lunch break, and I have an idea.
"Um, they stuck around for maybe 10, 15 more minutes, I actually did snap a picture of them walking away, cause I wanted to send it to their dad, and be like, hey, this is, you know, what's going on. Because I'm home alone."
If you take the kids out of the picture, JH is no longer 'their dad'. He is 'my bf, my man, JH' The sentence doesn't work if the kids aren't there.
I then thought back to something I posted yesterday, about her use of the word 'actually', used twice, also while describing this interaction with the strangers.
'Actually, it was pretty early morning'
The use of 'actually' smacks of comparison, and since there was nothing asked that she would need to make a comparison to, I assume the comparison is internal, and that it was 'actually' NOT early morning at all. Why mention that at all? No one asked her what time it was.
Early morning might be a time when the kids are still asleep. Later morning... they are likely to be awake.
These two things together are leading me to believe, at least right now, that the kids were awake, and at least in some manner, present for this weird exchange with the scary strangers that she invited in and then found somehow threatening.
So my question now is - why make attempts to leave them out of the story?
Imagine that you have no context for this interview whatsoever. The way she says this leads one to think that she knows these people loitering outside of her home, and she is going to send a picture of them to THEIR father. But that can't be, because she has chosen to introduce them to the listener as strangers. It feels weird and wrong, even without context. I just took a nice long walk on my lunch break, and I have an idea.
"Um, they stuck around for maybe 10, 15 more minutes, I actually did snap a picture of them walking away, cause I wanted to send it to their dad, and be like, hey, this is, you know, what's going on. Because I'm home alone."
If you take the kids out of the picture, JH is no longer 'their dad'. He is 'my bf, my man, JH' The sentence doesn't work if the kids aren't there.
I then thought back to something I posted yesterday, about her use of the word 'actually', used twice, also while describing this interaction with the strangers.
'Actually, it was pretty early morning'
The use of 'actually' smacks of comparison, and since there was nothing asked that she would need to make a comparison to, I assume the comparison is internal, and that it was 'actually' NOT early morning at all. Why mention that at all? No one asked her what time it was.
Early morning might be a time when the kids are still asleep. Later morning... they are likely to be awake.
These two things together are leading me to believe, at least right now, that the kids were awake, and at least in some manner, present for this weird exchange with the scary strangers that she invited in and then found somehow threatening.
So my question now is - why make attempts to leave them out of the story?