: No. Just no. I'm too exhausted to say anything else. So
: just no.
: Besides, that's the
: "small-little-remote-backwater-village"
: version of living memory. When it's used as it is in
: the particular context that some sort of official
: records (or prbly any other thing in relation to Myth)
: it would mean all of known human history. Trust me.
: I'm very good when it comes to the English language.
: When they finally haul my buttocks into college, I'll
: prbly decide to try getting a major in the subject.
: And I'd prbly pass fairly well. Not trying to sound
: pompous or anything, though.
: Unless we're talking about Mythworld Hicks, we're talking
: the span of all known history.
: Doom
Point, but would you refer to someone who was not in your life time as "in living memory"?
I think that it means in the LIVING memory, i.e people who are still alive cann't remember anything worse better hotter colder stronger weaker whatever...
But this isn't an English class, so let's drop this part of the thread.
Seraph