ext_123907 ([identity profile] improbabilityx.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] rabenhorst 2007-07-08 04:50 pm (UTC)

Sorry, I think I must have been really tired when I posted that and was too lazy to find them at the time.

No, THAT usage of "once" is perfectly fine, I use it like that 8 shmillion times a day.

Like, here: "Then I take that as a promise. Let's just go out to worship the sun once." I mean, it's grammatically correct but I don't think it's communicating what he really means. Since it's more like an open-ended suggestion, it would be more appropriate to say "Let's go out to worship the sun sometime." That's more the way people speak. "Let's just go out to worship the sun once" sounds more like, "We'll do this, one time." But it still doesn't specify a time, which is usually what you'd do if you suggest doing something with someone. You specify a time, or you say "sometime" or "sometime soon" or "sometime in the near future" or whatever.

That's kind of a nitpicky thing but it's kind of awkward, and it happened several times that I noticed so I thought I'd point it out... *hides under a rock*

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