Babysit?

[Dennis R. Preston]

Yeah! What's with all these words. Surely do, make, have, and be
would do it for verbs and whatsizname and whatzchamacallit ought to
cover nouns. If you must qualify I'm for bigol and littleol for
adjectives. Adverbs could surely be dismissed.

dInIs



>Right.  I don't know why we have to have a word for EVERYTHING!  Why
>can't we just say, "I take care of children?"  or "I am going to
>take care of Sue's children while she is at work."  Are we lazy, are
>we trying to save our breaths, or is it something else??
>
>Tori

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