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    Question This cold black?

    Please give me both meaning and the exact structure of the following phrase.
    This cold black.
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    Default Re: This cold black?

    Please give us both the context in which you saw the phrase and your source.

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    Default Re: This cold black?

    Quote Originally Posted by leonardoatt View Post
    Please give me both meaning and the exact structure of the following phrase.
    This cold black.
    Context is everything and what you have posted is not a complete sentence. It is almost impossible to comment on three individual words picked from a sentence.

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    Quote Originally Posted by emsr2d2 View Post
    Context is everything and what you have posted is not a complete sentence. It is almost impossible to comment on three individual words picked from a sentence.
    No. I have not pick them from any sentences. That's the name of a music. Do your best to answer my question,please.

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    Default Re: This cold black?

    Quote Originally Posted by leonardoatt View Post
    No. I have not picked them from any sentences. That's the name of a music. Do your best to answer my question, please.
    Is it the name of a song or a band? It probably makes no difference as song titles and band names frequently are inexplicable!

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    Default Re: This cold black?

    Quote Originally Posted by leonardoatt View Post
    No. I have not pick them from any sentences. That's the name of a music. Do your best to answer my question,please.
    this unfriendly African?
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    Default Re: This cold black?

    I Googled it and discovered that it is the title of a song by Slipknot and the three words from the title don't even appear in the song!

    From the utterly depressing content of the rest of the song my best guess would be that the writer was feeling a cold blackness in his heart (he was very depressed) but that is absolutely a guess!

    As usual, song lyrics cause English learners no end of problems because, quite frequently, they don't make sense and were never intended to.
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    Default Re: This cold black?

    I am closing this thread.
    Last edited by Tdol; 27-Aug-2011 at 16:24.
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