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What about it do you think doesn’t work in English? I think it works perfectly (although it is possible I’m reading too much into it given the context)—he’s say
by bee_rider 1y ago
What about it do you think doesn’t work in English? I think it works perfectly (although it is possible I’m reading too much into it given the context)—he’s saying he’ll be dead, but he’s focusing on the life he lived instead. I think there’s an element of resistance to it as well; they can kill him but they can’t take away the fact that he has lived.
- saltcured 1y agoAs a western US speaker, I think we would let idioms and other special cases override the grammatical interpretation you are stating. To me, "lived" is used metaphorically so often that to say "I lived" or "I have lived" does not, by default, connote death. It just reflects on an especially vivacious moment.