Timeline for What does "if you don't have one, you don't need the other" mean?
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| Jun 18, 2015 at 2:45 | comment | added | Jim | @FumbleFingers- I took the nouns to be worry, and prayer. | |
| Jun 17, 2015 at 15:00 | comment | added | ssav | The quote is from the episode Human Error, and the character Marina and her husband are Cuban, so the script writers may be deliberating using phrasing that a native English speaker wouldn't use. | |
| Jun 17, 2015 at 14:51 | vote | accept | Andrew | ||
| Jun 17, 2015 at 14:36 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | The text as originally cited was obviously somewhat inaccurate, and we have no link to the full original context, but since I assume the script was written by competent native speaker I think it's an unlikely juxtaposition. The initial references are to verbs (to worry, to pray), so it seems clumsy in the extreme to couple these with a "stock phrase" that specifically depends on referencing nouns (which in this case strongly implies pluralising a worry as well as transparently converting from to pray to prayer). | |
| Jun 17, 2015 at 14:19 | history | answered | Vlammuh | CC BY-SA 3.0 |