(August 21, 2015 at 4:56 pm)Rhondazvous Wrote: .... Think of the fun and educational exercise of trying to figure out how they were on a desert isle in the opening song and a tropic island in the closing song.
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That is easy:
Quote:desert 2
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adjective
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1Like a desert:overgrazing has created desert conditions
1.1Uninhabited and desolate:desert wastes
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/defini...ish/desert
They meant definition 1.1, not definition 1, for "desert" in the phrase "desert isle."
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
