# What's Wrong with this Rhyme?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-this-rhyme/808433>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [February 8, 2018, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-this-rhyme/808433 "2018-02-08T12:57:22Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 8, 2018, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-this-rhyme/808433/21 "2018-02-08T19:12:52Z")

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> [@pulykamell](#):
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> And I’d argue in this case, “bring” is preferred anyway, as, from your perspective, the motion is toward you. After all, you’d say, “Harry, bring that glass to me.” So, a Shabbos well spent brings [to you] a week of content.

Right–as the video that **Inner Stickler** posted explains, there is a psychological dimension to the deixis of _bring_ and _take_, (in addition to the spatial dimension). Such words are not bound by any supreme law to be strictly _spatially_ referential. The people who assert that have a very superficial understanding of language.

That wouldn’t be a _grammatical_ objection, anyway, as neither would be the old-fashioned use of _content_, which, as **Chronos** points out, would just be poetic license.

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