Dec 17, 2022 04:41
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There's colourful cartoons that are slowly fading
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From the TV series Abandoned Engineering, Season 7, Episode 9.
This is how the episode begins:
"In the United States an eerie relic festers in the backwoods of Arkansas. There's colourful cartoons that are slowly fading. It's almost like you can hear the children laughing from like 20 years ago."
It is about Dogpatch USA: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dogpatch_USA&oldi...
The first part of the episode is about the history of this park.
What does the sentence in question mean in this particular context?
I asked this question on another forum and a native English speaker provided some answers, but because some things are still unclear to me I'd like to hear more opinions.
The main problem for me is that I can't understand why the speaker says "There's colourful cartoons that are slowly fading" when the screen doesn't show any colourful cartoons or cartoon characters at all.
Here you can see the relevant screenshots:
https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/theres-colourful-car...
Thank you.
From the TV series Abandoned Engineering, Season 7, Episode 9.
This is how the episode begins:
"In the United States an eerie relic festers in the backwoods of Arkansas. There's colourful cartoons that are slowly fading. It's almost like you can hear the children laughing from like 20 years ago."
It is about Dogpatch USA: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dogpatch_USA&oldi...
The first part of the episode is about the history of this park.
What does the sentence in question mean in this particular context?
I asked this question on another forum and a native English speaker provided some answers, but because some things are still unclear to me I'd like to hear more opinions.
The main problem for me is that I can't understand why the speaker says "There's colourful cartoons that are slowly fading" when the screen doesn't show any colourful cartoons or cartoon characters at all.
Here you can see the relevant screenshots:
https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/theres-colourful-car...
Thank you.
Responses
3 +2 | {it is a metaphor} |
Michael Sarni
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Responses
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{it is a metaphor}
It’s a metaphor. The state of what used to be a lively theme park is compared to the state of funny old cartoons that inspired it.
Peer comment(s):
agree |
Tony M
2 hrs
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agree |
Anastasia Kalantzi
5 hrs
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neutral |
Cilian O'Tuama
: But there are, not is, if followed by plural
7 days
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Thank you very much, Michael."
Discussion
1. The cartoons are fading because they are getting old or
2. they are subjectively fading for us because of the habituation.
Certainly, it has happened to everybody to be hearing a music and gradually our spirit grows in abstraction and we hear it increasingly less.