WHERE IS THE HUMOR?

[tien-sung]

Please place your donation in the envelope along with the
deceased person you want remembered

Please tell me where the humor is in the above sentence.

Thank you.

tien-sung

(From Taiwan)

 

[Munch]

Please place your donation in the envelope along with the
deceased person you want remembered

Please tell me where the humor is in the above sentence.

Thank you.

tien-sung

(From Taiwan)

Because it is asking for people to put a dead body in a envelope!

It should say "the name of the deceased person".

 

[tien-sung]

Why this sentece used "want rememberred"?
Can we say "want to remember"?or "want to be remmberred"?


from tien-sung

 

[birdeen's call]

Note that it's remembered, not rememberred.

"Want to be remembered" would mean the same thing.

 

[BobK]

...
"Want to be remembered" would mean the same thing.

Sometimes, but not in this context. In the 'prayer-for-the-dead' context, the person who is praying doesn't remember the person at all; they remember to mention them by name (or if not by name, then in some specific way, such as 'the miners in New Zealand'). They don't have to remember them at all (in the sense of recall stuff about them).

A priest might say 'Please remember in your prayers N who died last week.' This sort of dead person is 'being remembered'. ;-)

b

 

[birdeen's call]

Sometimes, but not in this context. In the 'prayer-for-the-dead' context, the person who is praying doesn't remember the person at all; they remember to mention them by name (or if not by name, then in some specific way, such as 'the miners in New Zealand'). They don't have to remember them at all (in the sense of recall stuff about them).

A priest might say 'Please remember in your prayers N who died last week.' This sort of dead person is 'being remembered'. ;-)

b

I still don't understand why "want to be remembered" is incorrect in this context. Do you mean that it would have to be "want to be being remembered"? :shock:

 

[BobK]

I still don't understand why "want to be remembered" is incorrect in this context. It's not. Do you mean that it would have to be "want to be being remembered"? :shock:

No;-) - I was just saying that, in the context of prayers, being 'remembered' has nothing to do with personal memories. Perhaps mistakenly I thought you were saying it had.

b

 

[Tdol]

And we can say Remember me to your parents, for instance, as a way of sending our regards.