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user-inactivated  ·  4049 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The most famous book that takes place in every state

It's a bad title. I wasn't sure how to say it.





q-  ·  4049 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The most famous book that takes place in each US state.

q-  ·  4049 days ago  ·  link  ·  

"Each state as a setting for its most famous book." ? Flip it around - seems to work. Still wonky. Back to: "The most famous books set in each (not every) US state."

user-inactivated  ·  4049 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    The most famous book that takes place in each US state.
That can still be interpreted as a book that takes place in every US state, and that is the most famous of that kind (of taking place in every US state).
user-inactivated  ·  4049 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah, how would you say that? Hmmm. Maybe something like, "For every state, a book that takes place in it"...? Too awkward... I don't know. English is screwed up. In a programming language, I would express it like: http://play.golang.org/p/_07_RihlNa.

user-inactivated  ·  4049 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Ha! Briefly I get a window into the mind of a programmer. Wonderful.