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Party

by Boum on January 23, 2017 at 12:01AM
Chapter: Comic Strips
└ Tags: boyfriend, everyday life, friends, parenthood
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  1. Lise
    January 23, 2017, 2:56PM | #

    I think instead of saying “I didn’t mean it literally” in the last panel, you should say “I didn’t mean right away.” Using “literally” would imply that “I have to breastfeed soon” was a figure of speech.

  2. Boum
    January 23, 2017, 2:58PM | #

    Hmm, interesting! Even if it’s the “soon” part I didn’t mean literally?

  3. Rhiannon
    January 23, 2017, 3:54PM | #

    No she’s right. She used breastfeeding as an excuse to leave the party but realised once she got home she actually had to lol

  4. Steven Hack
    January 23, 2017, 5:03PM | #

    This is actually interestingly vague as to whether it’s correct. After significant thought though, I think how this works is that, because “soon” is vague as to when exactly it means, you shouldn’t use literally to modify it, since it would still be “literally soon” in the morning, or in two days, or…
    If you’d used a stricter time modifier, like “tonight” or even “now”, though, then you could modify that with literally.

    However, a different interpretation works; if we take it to mean that you were expecting to need to do something with the kids as soon as you got home, but it wasn’t breastfeeding, then it could be breastfeeding that you didn’t mean literally. I don’t think that was what you meant, though.

  5. Rana
    January 23, 2017, 9:38PM | #

    That’s how I read it, too.

  6. Boum
    January 23, 2017, 9:42PM | #

    I… I guess I can leave it like that then?

  7. Ronnielong
    January 24, 2017, 5:45PM | #

    It make perfect sense, just people not realising you were using breastfeeding as an excuse to leave the party I think

  8. Amy
    January 24, 2017, 9:15PM | #

    It doesn’t make sense even if it was used as an excuse.

  9. Boum
    January 25, 2017, 8:01AM | #

    I’m confused now. @_@

    What if i just changed the wording to “This is not what I meant”?

  10. Alanna
    January 25, 2017, 10:24AM | #

    I was never confused! To me it makes total sense. My two cents is that you can leave it the way it is. (I hope this doesn’t confuse you more!)

  11. Lise
    January 25, 2017, 3:24PM | #

    My main nitpick with the expression is that an excuse is not a figure of speech. For example: you said “John has two left feet” because John’s a bad dancer, then found out he actually does have left feet. Then it would be acceptable to say “he LITERALLY has two left feet”, because the expression is originally intended as a figure of speech.

    That being said, I don’t think your delivery of the line was hard to understand. I get the joke. This is just a nitpick, so really you could leave it as is.

  12. Zack
    January 25, 2017, 3:56PM | #

    Very related link: http://wowwiki.wikia.com/wiki/Soon

  13. Jason
    January 28, 2017, 3:59AM | #

    There are lots of ways that you could have phrased it, but honestly, it works fine as it is. Perhaps some of the people who don’t immediately get that you were making an excuse think that the words must be confusing, instead of thinking about it for a moment. The words themselves make sense and convey the message of “that was SUPPOSED to be an excuse” just fine.

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