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Thread #157237 Message #3710032
Posted By: Mr Red
19-May-15 - 01:00 PM
Thread Name: Grammar for Songwriters
Subject: RE: Grammar for Songwriters
"for all intensive purposes" without context I can see an unblemished licence being waved in one interpretation. If the "purpose" was executed "intensively" we could see it as an invented word and short hand for the context above. Clever or clunky it would stand if the rest of it supported the meaning.
Having said that, language is for conveying complex meaning that signs and pictures can't. Poetry is a way of intensifying that. Song ditto (or did I mean moreso?). But it has to speak to the its audience.