oh, CANADA

[meretricula]

the Canadian dreamboat in my Latin class has a girlfriend, but Canada continues to fascinate me. in addition to cute accents, it apparently also produces ROCKIN' CELLO QUARTETS. who knew?

blame Canada now. I dare you.

Comments

[reppu.livejournal.com]

I never thought I'd see the day when a cello quartet played "I'm a Barbie Girl." And it was so good that I almost didn't recognize the song. I was into the third repeat by the time I got it. I can blame Canada for many a thing, but for producing bad cellists I cannot.

[meretricula.livejournal.com]

it's like watching two halves of my childhood collide, but it isn't horrifying! I want to find that cello quartet and cuddle them. (and only partly because they're Canadian.)

[oh-sarah28.livejournal.com]

Now, Vee. That wasn't semantically accurate. Canada does not produce rockin' cello quartets. Canada has produced a rockin' cello quartet.

[meretricula.livejournal.com]

how do you know there aren't more out there? Canada's a big country. there could be lots of rockin' cello quartets! they could still be making them as we speak!

[oh-sarah28.livejournal.com]

That's entirely possible. But because you needed to use the subjunctive to express that thought, then the statement "Canada produces rockin' cello quartets" is a synthetic and does not refer. We have no evidence that Canada has produced other rockin' cello quartets, and therefore cannot truthfully say that it has. Conversely, we cannot truthfully say that it has not. We cannot ascribe a truth value to the sentence.

I just took a bitch of a semantics midterm. Forgive me.

[meretricula.livejournal.com]

~snerks~ it's okay, get your nerd on. it's sort of sexy. =P