When (American) TV actors utter the phrase “What are you doing here?”, as I must have heard dozens of times lately, they nearly always emphasize doing<\/i> — and I nearly always think it would make more sense to emphasize either here<\/i> or you<\/i>; if the question were provoked by your doing rather than your presence, the asker would omit here<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Am I taking the phrase too literally? How do you say it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
When (American) TV actors utter the phrase “What are you doing here?”, as I must have heard dozens of times lately, they nearly always emphasize doing — and I nearly always think it would make more sense to emphasize either … Continue reading