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/ Dear Mister Language Person: I am \ | |
| curious about the expression, "Part of | | |
| this complete breakfast". The way it | | |
| comes up is, my 5-year-old will be | | |
| watching TV cartoon shows in the | | |
| morning, and they'll show a commercial | | |
| for a children's compressed breakfast | | |
| compound such as "Froot Loops" or | | |
| "Lucky Charms", and they always show it | | |
| sitting on a table next to some actual | | |
| food such as eggs, and the announcer | | |
| always says: "Part of this complete | | |
| breakfast". Don't that really mean, | | |
| "Adjacent to this complete breakfast", | | |
| or "On the same table as this complete | | |
| breakfast"? And couldn't they make | | |
| essentially the same claim if, instead | | |
| of Froot Loops, they put a can of | | |
| shaving cream there, or a dead bat? | | |
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| Answer: Yes. | | |
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\ -- Dave Barry, "Tips for Writer's" / | |
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