Hi, List.
I need help from native speakers of English on the List. A friend of mine is
recording the voice on a guitarrist's album. They're Brazilian too, but the
lyrics are in English. He asked me to revise them and I found something
that, to me, would sound terrible in any language: "... like burning flames
on fire..."
Burning flames on fire!!!??? If they're flames, they're burning, that is, on
fire. Burning flames or flames on fire might be even acceptable ( though not
for me ), but 'burning' AND 'on fire', that's too much.
The problem is that the guitarrist insists that he checked that with a
Brazilian English teacher and he said native speakers would say it. Is that
true? Even if it's true, don't you agree it's not only a big cliche, but
also inappropriate?
Best regards,
Caio Rossi
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