Timeline for (about paintings) "I wanted an original of hers but she never has them available."
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| 19 hours ago | vote | accept | Yunus | ||
| 23 hours ago | answer | added | Barmar | timeline score: 1 | |
| 23 hours ago | history | edited | Barmar | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| yesterday | comment | added | Hiten Style | "Never" does not always mean never; we sometimes say "never" for hyperbolic exaggeration. It is possible that originals are sold, and that the speaker has checked a few times and found them to be sold out each time, and they are expressing their frustration by exaggerating. If the painter LITERALLY never sells her original paintings, using "never" to express that is actually more ambiguous than simply saying "she does not sell them." | |
| yesterday | history | edited | Yunus | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| yesterday | answer | added | Driftwood | timeline score: -1 | |
| yesterday | comment | added | TimR | I tried to watch the video but had to bail at the LED face mask segment, though I wanted out much earlier. | |
| yesterday | comment | added | FumbleFingers | My immediate assumption was she never has them available for me (by implication, as a free or heavily discounted favour for a friend). If you've got the money, even an original by Van Gogh is "available". So until I followed the link, I took it for granted this was a scripted line in a satire of pretentious "social climber art lovers". But apparently it's not a spoof - the speaker is for real! | |
| yesterday | comment | added | TimR | There's a number disagreement between "an original" and "them" so I think it is indeed a suitable question for ELL. Why not "never has one available"? | |
| yesterday | comment | added | Lambie | I’m voting to close this question because it is not about English per se. | |
| yesterday | comment | added | Lambie | If a painter paints and never has their paintings available, what do you think it means? There are only two ways to sell paintings: directly to a buyer OR through a gallery. Conclusion: to make available for purchase by a buyer. These kinds of questions are not about English per se. They could exist in any language. | |
| yesterday | comment | added | TimR | If it is a limited edition, there would be a finite number of "originals" produced from the master. The artist "sells out" of them. That is a context that would make sense of "I wanted an original ... but she never has them available." | |
| yesterday | comment | added | Yunus | @TimR, I don't know what a color lithograph is. They seemed like reproductions of some paintings to me, which I am not good at understanding. In the video she does not mention anything like numbered (limited edition) or something like that. If you are good at understanding it, I just added the link in the text of the question. | |
| yesterday | history | edited | Yunus | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| yesterday | comment | added | TimR | Are you sure they were paintings and not numbered (limited edtion) color lithographs? | |
| yesterday | history | asked | Yunus | CC BY-SA 4.0 |