Timeline for Meaning of 'yet' in "I hope yet to live..."
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| Aug 14, 2014 at 13:21 | vote | accept | CommunityBot | ||
| Aug 1, 2014 at 14:10 | comment | added | Hellion | "Live to see" is an idiomatic phrase; it does not imply that the speaker expects to die soon or has health issues or any such thing, it simply adds emphasis to the desirability (or undesirability) of the thing being seen. "I never thought I'd live to see the day when telling the truth was a crime", for example. | |
| Aug 1, 2014 at 7:59 | comment | added | Sammaye | What's the causality though? To be in spite of you need to have a reason, for example he hopes to live despite illness? The sentence does not seem to imply an "in spite of" on the "yet". If the "to live" part was taken out I would agree but the sense of him living and the position of yet before the "to live" means that "in spite of" everything he expects justice but hopes to live to the day it will be done | |
| Jul 31, 2014 at 18:08 | history | answered | Hellion | CC BY-SA 3.0 |