The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to Lemmy Be Wholesome@lemmy.world · 7 hours agoCo-op campaign mode unlockedlemmy.worldimagemessage-square47fedilinkarrow-up1425arrow-down115
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minus-squareburgersc12linkfedilinkarrow-up3·6 hours agoIsn’t this just phrasing it differently? “Until you’re old” doesn’t imply anything different than “as you grow old” to me.
minus-squareMouselemming@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up5·5 hours agoAs an old person with my same old spouse, I’m glad it didn’t have to end as soon as we got here. We’re going to continue growing older and older together, because as much as getting old sucks, it would be worse all alone.
minus-squareBlue_Morpho@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·4 hours agoUntil means up to the point. The sentence implies a change at the point of being old.
minus-squareburgersc12linkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-24 hours agoMaybe if it was “until you die”, but I read it as getting old being the change, not the relationship changing
Isn’t this just phrasing it differently? “Until you’re old” doesn’t imply anything different than “as you grow old” to me.
As an old person with my same old spouse, I’m glad it didn’t have to end as soon as we got here. We’re going to continue growing older and older together, because as much as getting old sucks, it would be worse all alone.
Until means up to the point. The sentence implies a change at the point of being old.
Maybe if it was “until you die”, but I read it as getting old being the change, not the relationship changing