So I was watching some local news, and they had a brief interview with a guy whose normal family was thrust into city-wide attention for some reason. Hew was being interviewed and was asked how his family was dealing with the situation. He replied:

“We’re doing good, we’re not used to all this attention. We always kinda shine away from the light, so this is a lot different.” (emphasis, obviously, mine.)

I thought this was such a fantastic, poetic misunderstanding that I had to comment on it. I would post it here, however I can’t find any video of it, and without documentation it’s impossible to verify. Nonetheless, I thought it was worth remembering.

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On another, unrelated language topic… Do we call them ducks because that’s what they do, or do we call it ducking because that’s what they do?

Update 6/5/8: Google’s found another example. (Be careful, it’s stupid.)