I’ve received a few comments via email on my last post, but one of them struck me. The sentence that got to me was:
When one is judged on “(morally) failing as a human being”, this is called “shaming” and it is very different than mere “judging”.
Bubbles popping
This isn’t about champagne.
Found wanting
“What do you want,” she asked, for the third time in as many weeks.
That requires some explanation, obviously. That sentence is one of the more overused in English partly because of how diverse its meaning can be depending on emphasis and delivery and context. “what do You want” is completely different from “WHAT do you want” or “what do you Want” or even “what Do you want”. This time it was more that last sense, or maybe a combination of emphasizing What and Want sort of equally.