"Turn on"

Jonathan Lighter wuxxmupp2000 at YAHOO.COM
Tue Oct 12 22:54:54 UTC 2004


Me too.

JL

"Mark A. Mandel" <mamandel at LDC.UPENN.EDU> wrote:
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Wilson Gray writes (responding to Jonathan Lightner's
post):
>>>>>
> Pei's comments on American slang are often unreliable.

Alas! Poor Mario! He just don't get no respect. Everybody puts him
down. (Long story not worth the telling.)
<<<<<

I remember his _The Story of Language_ as part of what turned me on to
linguistics.

Mark A. Mandel, Research Administrator
Biomedical Information Extraction, Linguistic Data Consortium
University of Pennsylvania
[This text prepared with Dragon NaturallySpeaking.]


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