The nefarious "they"

James Smith jsmithjamessmith at YAHOO.COM
Thu Sep 22 13:10:51 UTC 2005


Matbe we should call them refugees, seeing as they
were forced to migrate to the other lot!

> Grant Barrett <gbarrett at WORLDNEWYORK.ORG> wrote:
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> Nice self-conscious example of "they" carrying a
> negative payload in
> a discussion of a parking lot used by gays for
> sexual cruising:
>
> "You would see one guy in a car and then another
> head would pop up,
> or they would gather and have sex in the woods," he
> said. The lot was
> partitioned off in recent years for official
> vehicles, he said,
> adding, "I guess that's when they - I hate to say
> 'they' but I don't
> know what words to use - they migrated to the other
> lot."
>
>
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/21/nyregion/21cruise.html
>
> Grant Barrett
> gbarrett at worldnewyork.org
> http://www.doubletongued.org/
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