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Irving Berlin, Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better
As performed by Dinah Shore & Ginger Rogers
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Is that even a valid type of graph?
Should be a Venn diagram instead.
That format wouldn’t work, because ANYTHING you can do I can do better, and Venn Diagrams have parts outside of one circle, and part is not all.
Sure. It’s a Venn diagram where rather than both circles intersecting, one circle engulfs the other.
Of course it’s valid. It’s pie.
Wouldn’t this be better as “how well you can do things”, “how well I can do them”?
But that wouldn’t reflect the grammar of the song.
This is a Venn diagram of “Anything you can do I can do better.” For all x, if you can do x, then I can do x better. The class of things I can do better contains everything in the class of things you can do.
To be able to do something “better” the other person has to be able to do it. So, it should be the same set, not a subset.
True…but it would be really hard to represent that visually in a way that people could understand (considering that people misunderstand this one), and I don’t think the result is as funny.
The Ethel Merman-Miss Piggy version rocked!
It amazes me that people don’t get this, but it is an old song. Annie, get your gun! I liked it!
funny funny song …