Reading comprehension
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@lucas1 or happy
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Another one for you: what's the row in death row? Can't find any explanations, as if it's obvious, but how come? Row can be: commotion, a line, an argument. Death row is the part of prison housing people sentenced to death. Can't see an obvious link here.
Something like "they sit there in a row, waiting for death", springs to mind, but that's just a stupid pseudo-etymology.
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@kt_ said in Reading comprehension:
what's the row in death row?
They have to continually use oars to move a boat (or, in these more enlightened times, an equivalent exercise machine) until they die of exhaustion.
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@dkf said in Reading comprehension:
@kt_ said in Reading comprehension:
what's the row in death row?
They have to continually use oars to move a boat (or, in these more enlightened times, an equivalent exercise machine) until they die of exhaustion.
You're just pulling my leg, aren't you?
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@kt_ said in Reading comprehension:
@dkf said in Reading comprehension:
@kt_ said in Reading comprehension:
what's the row in death row?
They have to continually use oars to move a boat (or, in these more enlightened times, an equivalent exercise machine) until they die of exhaustion.
You're just pulling my leg, aren't you?
Would I do that?
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@dkf said in Reading comprehension:
@kt_ said in Reading comprehension:
@dkf said in Reading comprehension:
@kt_ said in Reading comprehension:
what's the row in death row?
They have to continually use oars to move a boat (or, in these more enlightened times, an equivalent exercise machine) until they die of exhaustion.
You're just pulling my leg, aren't you?
Would I do that?
Yeah, that would've been a great etymology, though.
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@kt_ I've always assumed it's row as in queue. Like they're lined up waiting to be executed. Or maybe that it's a row of cells in a single corridor, with the same meaning of row as in a row of houses
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@jaloopa I've always assumed it referred to a row of cells, although not necessarily a literal single row.
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@kt_ said in Reading comprehension:
You're just pulling my leg, aren't you?
It should actually be pronounced /raΚ/, as in argue. The prisoners must argue with each other about US politics until one of them loses the will to live and decides that the electric chair would be preferable.