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Re: idea: environment pronoun

From:Danny Wier <dawier@...>
Date:Tuesday, April 16, 2002, 6:06
From: "Garrett Jones" <alkaline@...>

[DW]

> > It's (the weather) hotter than a stump burning at both ends today. > > It's (the world, the times) all going to hell in a handbasket. > > It's (what people are saying nowadays) all bulls**t to me.
> I can see the environment pronoun being used for the first two but not > really the third. The third seems like it would be referring back to some > concept that was already being discussed earlier. The first two sentences > don't need a context to make sense, but the third one begs the question, > "but what is it you're saying is bulls**t?" if uttered out of context.
Correct on that. The meaning in the third case is "what the world's saying", a derivative of the other two.