become snowball

19:23 Nov 26, 2012 

OK, that makes it easier to follow now, if it is someone talking; the sue of the rather formal 'wherein' is still slightly surprising, as BDF says, but I think the person was probably 'thinking on his feet' and having talked himself into a corner, was trying to find a way out of it!

In any event, all the rest makes perfect sense; as we now know for sure this is a transcription, it is of course also conceivable that the transcriber made a mistake — he might just have said the much more ordinary 'where', which the well-meaning transcriber could have corrected for grammar to 'wherein', sadly ignoring the register in the process. Don't laugh — it happens!

19:10 Nov 26, 2012 

Tony , this is a transcription from a TV interview.

"It started with the music for me. I had to go back. I mean, we all know the XY hits, but I really just wanted to sit and remember why I, as a fan, loved X and what his lyrics meant to me," he said. "I really started there, and ... it kind of became a snowball, wherein a story was being created for me.

13:32 Nov 26, 2012 

Sory, can't quite agree there; 'wherein' is technically correct (it is rolled up 'in' the snowball); 'whence' wouldn't work, arguably perhaps 'whereby' might be OK. As for the register, on that point, I do agree; but then, we don't know anything about the context, period, rest of the writer's style; although this might not be common usage in a modern context, it might just be the style of that particular writer. So while this might be intriguingly quirky, I don't think we can really say it is 'wrong', or even 'poorly written'.

09:34 Nov 26, 2012 

There is something wrong with the English. The use of "wherein" (a word only used in formal registers),doesn't fit an informal register and is also not correct - in an archaic, formal register, one would use "whence", not "wherein" here. The sentence quoted is othewise OK, other than not starting with a capital letter. The indefinite article is only omitted in the heading, not in the quote, so that can be put down to a typo.

08:45 Nov 25, 2012 

I don't really see why you say it is poorly written? It sounds like someone writing fairly informally, as they talk, but there is nothing wrong with the EN per se.

08:42 Nov 25, 2012 

Thank you! :) I think, understand it.

08:26 Nov 25, 2012 

'became a snowball' is more like the verb 'snowballed', yes... it just got bigger and bigger and picked up momentum as it went along.

07:50 Nov 25, 2012 

:) Sorry again! I try to understand your answers, the meaning became snowball . It is the same word as snowballed, in this sentence an idea growing, like a snowball. Right? Or bethink oneself of sg , a rush thought?

15:15 Nov 24, 2012 

It's poorly written in English, csazsu, which can be very difficult to try to translate!

14:38 Nov 24, 2012 

Thank you for your answers. I think it is an expression , and i think didn't understand it exactly. A showdirector talking about , how he created a story of show. An exposition could help me in english or a translating in hungarian . Sorry for my pur english.

20:50 Nov 21, 2012 

Hello csazsu, and welcome to KudoZ.

It's not quite clear what your question actually is; are you asking for an explanation in EN, or did you perhaps want help translating this into some other language? If so, please tell us, and we can edit the language pair for you.