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Re:Project includes a dependancy that has a license that for... by Twirrim on Sunday August 22, 2021 @01:43PM (#28267667)

"I did it as a lark" has been used as an expression for a long time already, well over a century.

To give a few examples, https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Boy_s_Own_Annual/X7...

"Sure as goodness, I thought you both did it as a lark", from a book published in 1895, so it's reasonable to assume it was already in some level of common idiom by then. It's unlikely The Boys Own Annual was trail blazing in its use of language.

Or https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Fortnightly_Review/... from 1929. "D you remember I got certified as a lunatic for trying to make a living by betting that one horse would reach a post before another, I admit it was silly, but I only did it as a lark"

Language changes and evolves over time. You're attempting to be King Canute, except maybe one apparently deluded enough to believe the courtiers, only not as the tide is on the way in, but as the tide is long past and you've almost drowned.

The ship sailed on the point you're making before you were even born.

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Re:Project includes a dependancy that has a license that for... by Jarwain on Sunday August 22, 2021 @04:32PM (#28269325)

Does anyone actually use "as a lark" to mean the action was done while being a bird? Common usage these days is for "as a lark" to be effectively synonymous with "on a lark"; thus it would be more useful/helpful for people to be familiar with this variation of the common idiom.

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Re:Project includes a dependancy that has a license that for... by handelaar on Sunday August 22, 2021 @05:32PM (#28269840)

"On a lark" is something I (a native English speaker, from London, which is in England, after which the language is named) have never heard or seen written -- anywhere -- before your ill-considered and wholly-incorrect posts on this thread.

Shush.

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Re:Project includes a dependancy that has a license that for... by CyberRabbi on Sunday August 22, 2021 @06:11PM (#28270168)

Not sure why new information has provoked such a personal response from you. As a native English speaker from London, have you heard of “as a lark”?

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Re:Project includes a dependancy that has a license that for... by stordoff on Sunday August 22, 2021 @08:56PM (#28271240)

Usually in British English (Yorkshire, might vary by region), I just hear "It is/was/will be a lark", so I'm not sure if either is particularly common. However, I've definitely come across people using "as a lark", whereas I can't recall hearing "on a lark". I've seen it used in text, but I'm not sure how many were from British English speakers.

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