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re: the "texting" lyric change shows a fundamental lack of understanding of text culture
Posted by: AlanScott 09:41 pm EST 02/27/19
In reply to: the "texting" lyric change shows a fundamental lack of understanding of text culture - Chazwaza 11:34 am EST 02/18/19

I'm catching up with reading and posting replies to this thread.

Yes, it's "Look, I'll text you in the morning or I'll call you to explain." I refuse to text, despite one friend who regularly makes fun of me for that, but that's what I also thought when I heard the new lyrics. That just sounds so wrong, even to someone who doesn't text. I think it's one of several examples in the revised lyrics of Sondheim trying to sound up to date, but he is all too clearly not in touch with the present day.

Kind of like Hitchcock when he made Frenzy, set in contemporary London, where he hadn't lived in decades. Londoners thought it all too clear from the result that even though it was shot in present-day London, too much in it revealed a director who did not know or understand present-day London.
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