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From: "alexander koryagin" <koryagin@newmail.ru>

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Hi, Ardith Hinton! How are you?
on Saturday, 28 of July, I read your message to alexander koryagin
about "smelled like horse"

 AH> Hi, Alexander!  Recently you wrote in a message to All:

 ak>>  In Golden's "Arthas: Rise of the Lich King"


 AH>          This is from WORLD OF WARCRAFT, isn't it?

 AH>          Context, Alexander... context!!  I'm unacquainted with anybody
 AH> named "Arthas" & I have no idea who the Lich King might be.  You could
 AH> have told us more about where the quote came from, so we wouldn't have
 AH> to look it up.  ;-)

Well, Arthas is a boy of 11, a prince. Let me give a small fragment:
=========Beginning of the citation==============
    Arthas was silent and  did  not  look  up  at  Uther.  He  was  angry,
embarrassed, and hurting, and wanted nothing more than a hot bath and some
briarthorn tea to ease the pain. His right knee was starting to swell.
    "At least you are in time for  the  prayer  session  this  afternoon."
Uther eyed him up and down.  "Though you'll need to wash up."  Arthas  was
indeed sweaty and knew he smelled like horse.  It was  a  good  smell,  he
thought. An honest one. "Hurry up. We'll be assembling in the chapel."

=========The end of the citation================

So it was Golden words, the author. ;-)


 ak>>  [Arthas was indeed sweaty and knew he smelled like
 ak>>  horse.]

 ak>>  Why on earth it is not "smelled like a horse"? ;-)

 AH>          Fantasy doesn't always follow the "rules" as we know them...
 AH> [grin].

Probably articles are not so necessary as many think. For instance, people
don't put articles in newspaper titles, in TV line news; and everybody finds it
 perfectly OK. Although... that were the words of the author, and he was a
writer. 

PS: But there is "tired like dog". Probably nobody says "a dog".

[...LIZA:  I dont want to talk grammar. I want to talk like a lady.]
Bye Ardith!
Alexander (yAlexKo[]yandex.ru) + 2:5020/2140.91
fido7.english-tutor 2012 


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