Snowwomen@discuss.tchncs.de to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months ago"A guitarist who's also an astronaut" sounds more impressive than "An astronaut who plays the guitar", despite both meaning the same thing.message-squaremessage-square22fedilinkarrow-up1204arrow-down19
arrow-up1195arrow-down1message-square"A guitarist who's also an astronaut" sounds more impressive than "An astronaut who plays the guitar", despite both meaning the same thing.Snowwomen@discuss.tchncs.de to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agomessage-square22fedilink
minus-squareRevan343@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up30·edit-25 months agoLots of people play guitar, ‘a guitarist’ implies a certain level of skill. Consider that you only swapped ‘guitarist’, but not ‘astronaut’. A guitarist who’s been to space isn’t near as impressive as a guitarist who’s also an astronaut
Lots of people play guitar, ‘a guitarist’ implies a certain level of skill.
Consider that you only swapped ‘guitarist’, but not ‘astronaut’. A guitarist who’s been to space isn’t near as impressive as a guitarist who’s also an astronaut