# If grammarians wrote songs . . . **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 8, 2007, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-grammarians-wrote-songs/395032 "2007-03-08T00:31:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2007, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-grammarians-wrote-songs/395032/21 "2007-03-08T11:27:34Z")
You aren’t anything other than a hound dog. ---
**Author:** ![h.sapiens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e0b2c6/32.png) [@h.sapiens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h.sapiens)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2007, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-grammarians-wrote-songs/395032/22 "2007-03-08T13:58:49Z")
I am going to love you until the stars fall from the sky, for you and me. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2007, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-grammarians-wrote-songs/395032/23 "2007-03-08T13:59:16Z")
“But if this ever changing world in which we live makes you give in and cry.” ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2007, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-grammarians-wrote-songs/395032/24 "2007-03-08T14:13:32Z")
[QUOTE=RealityChuck] “But if this ever changing world in which we live makes you give in and cry.” [/QUOTE] I’ve seen at least one version of this that has your “world in which we live” as “world in which we’re living” so that what might sound like “in which we live in” makes more nearly grammatical sense. Not that it makes any more real sense. You must give Sir Paul a little slack here. At least it’s not as hard to reason through as _Band on the Run_. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2007, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-grammarians-wrote-songs/395032/25 "2007-03-08T15:55:11Z")
And I’m not going to forget from where it is that I come. ---
**Author:** ![villa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/bc79bd/32.png) [@villa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/villa)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2007, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-grammarians-wrote-songs/395032/26 "2007-03-08T16:21:31Z")
Whenever I hear [Montgomery Gentry](http://www.cowboylyrics.com/lyrics/montgomery-gentry/something-to-be-proud-of-12844.html), I find myself yelling at the radio… “That’s something of which to be proud That’s a life on which you can hang your hat.” But then again, that doesn’t fit to the music very well. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2007, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-grammarians-wrote-songs/395032/27 "2007-03-08T16:24:07Z")
Another Saturday Night and I do not have anybody. I have some money because I just received my pay. How I wish I had someone to which I could talk. I’m in a very bad way. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2007, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-grammarians-wrote-songs/395032/28 "2007-03-08T16:59:35Z")
[QUOTE=Zeldar] I’ve seen at least one version of this that has your “world in which we live” as “world in which we’re living” so that what might sound like “in which we live in” makes more nearly grammatical sense. Not that it makes any more real sense. You must give Sir Paul a little slack here. At least it’s not as hard to reason through as _Band on the Run_. [/QUOTE] Hey, I have no problem with the lyrics as they are. I’m a strong believer in poetic license. ---
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2007, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-grammarians-wrote-songs/395032/29 "2007-03-08T17:44:14Z")
With apologies to Sir Mixalot: “My baby has an appealingly large backside.” ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2007, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-grammarians-wrote-songs/395032/30 "2007-03-08T17:57:50Z")
I like big buttocks and I cannot lie. My fellow black men, you’re sure to agree with me: When a young lady enters the premises with a small waist Yet a large bottom that fills one’s view, One becomes aroused! One wishes to take out one’s penis! Because one knows that the young lady’s trousers are straining At the immensity of her posterior. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2007, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-grammarians-wrote-songs/395032/31 "2007-03-08T18:01:39Z")
Open up your morning light and say a little prayer for me. I can’t get any satisfaction. If you should ever find someone new, I know he better be good to you Because, if he isn’t, I will be there. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2007, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-grammarians-wrote-songs/395032/32 "2007-03-08T20:01:22Z")
[QUOTE=Astroboy14] We don’t need any education! [/QUOTE] Some of us still do, it would seem. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Hometownboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5e9695/32.png) [@Hometownboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hometownboy)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2007, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-grammarians-wrote-songs/395032/33 "2007-03-08T20:12:19Z")
[QUOTE=Annie-Xmas] Another Saturday Night and I do not have anybody. I have some money because I just received my pay. How I wish I had someone to which I could talk. I’m in a very bad way. [/QUOTE] Shouldn’t that be “ **to whom** I could talk.”? ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2007, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-grammarians-wrote-songs/395032/34 "2007-03-08T20:18:38Z")
Louie, Louie, I have to leave ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2007, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-grammarians-wrote-songs/395032/35 "2007-03-08T20:22:46Z")
[QUOTE=Hometownboy] Shouldn’t that be “ **to whom** I could talk.”? [/QUOTE] Might even push it all the way to _with_ whom, assuming it’s not a blow-up doll or someone you have no reason to expect might respond now and then. Your way may be closer to the intent of the songwriter, however. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2007, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-grammarians-wrote-songs/395032/36 "2007-03-08T20:34:20Z")
“at whom I could talk”? ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2007, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-grammarians-wrote-songs/395032/37 "2007-03-08T20:36:51Z")
[QUOTE=gigi] “at whom I could talk”? [/QUOTE] Damn! That’s sexy! ---
**Author:** ![mamboman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecb155/32.png) [@mamboman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mamboman)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2007, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-grammarians-wrote-songs/395032/38 "2007-03-08T20:38:20Z")
“it was a one eyed, one horned, purple flying people eater” or “it was a one eyed, one horned, flying eater of purple people” either one would resolve decades of conflict. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2007, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-grammarians-wrote-songs/395032/39 "2007-03-08T20:45:32Z")
I told your mamma I’d get you home but I didn’t tell her I had no car :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2007, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-grammarians-wrote-songs/395032/40 "2007-03-08T20:45:54Z")
[QUOTE=Zeldar] Damn! That’s sexy! [/QUOTE] You think that’s hot, how about “down to whom I could talk”. [QUOTE=mamboman] “it was a one eyed, one horned, purple flying people eater” or “it was a one eyed, one horned, flying eater of purple people” either one would resolve decades of conflict. [/QUOTE] :smack: I hadn’t noticed that ambiguity till now, but it will plague me. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-grammarians-wrote-songs/395032.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-grammarians-wrote-songs/395032.md?page=3)