| re: Into the Woulds |
| Posted by: Chromolume 01:25 am EDT 07/28/22 |
| In reply to: re: Into the Woulds - keikekaze 12:55 am EDT 07/28/22 |
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There are things you should or should not do (shoulds or shouldn'ts), just as the BW defines in the lyric. So by the same token, there could be things you would or wouldn't do (woulds or wouldn'ts). Just as there would be things that you could or couldn't do (coulds or couldn'ts) or did or didn't do (dids or didn'ts).
The same pattern applies to all sets of words. There's no special case for "shouldn'ts and shoulds," except that that's the only one Sondheim actually put in the lyric. It's all a play on words anyway. |
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