Aubrey Carter
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Appearances Over Time
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Exactly.
Exactly.
Or I wish for harmony in my family.
I wish for peace in the world.
Right.
These are big wishful thoughts that we use this chunk for.
I wish for.
And what does for do here, Aubrey?
Yeah, that's really what changes it.
Because if you look at these same sentences with just, I wish I had, or I wish I could, right?
You know, I wish I had a pizza right now.
I wish I could, right?
It feels more like it would lend to smaller things.
Exactly.
And you could use those constructions as well for these bigger things.
But we wouldn't say like, I wish for a bowl of ice cream, unless we're talking to a genie.
We just don't use that in daily conversations to say smaller things that we want.
Yeah, it's a really different kind of register going on here, a set of vocabulary words that signal the tone of the gravity of the conversation, right?
is one of those big hopes, those big wishes.
It's perfect for that, right?