Re: USAGE: "I want crazy two years ago"

On 7/13/06, Sai Emrys <sai@...> wrote:
> > This would make a lot more sense with "went" rather than "want".
> > I needed three readings to get the point.
>
> Doh! Typo, my fault.
Aww, shucks.  I was really interested in finding out the context for
that statement.

Sample scenario that poppsed into my head: a magazine editor asking a
writer for a really wild story really quickly.  "I want crazy, and I
want it yesterday!"  would be the usual form of the idiom, but if the
same editor were lamenting the fact that his magazine had missed an
opportunity by not being wild enough in the past and were suffering
for it, he might (rhetorically) request that it be done two years ago
. . .

etc.


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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>