Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-192.230.165.112-20140420035210/@comment-6383956-20140618015658

What part of "When I lived with my dad", said by someone presently living with his mother, could possibly imply something else? To anyone, from any culture? "Fixing to" is a dialect specfic phrase (your earlier example), this isn't. It IS universal, or at least as universal as the English language gets.

I'm not saying I know what his intent was, but he omitted his most reliable parental figure to describe a period of his life. Who does that accidentally? And, again, there had to be other ways to describe that period of his life. The writers picked that one with a specific idea in mind -- instead of "when my parents were together" or "when I was in (insert any other school)" And, as a character, Scott would have a reason for thinking of that time in his life in that specific way. Think about how you describe periods of your life -- is it incidental?