Heard on the Judges

[Wilson Gray]

Case A: Male African-American Latino speaker from Buffalo:

"And, from there, it _especulated_ into a confrontation."

I assume that the speaker had what a German friend of mine used to
call "a schwer English wort" handy and that, unconcerned with meaning,
he just tossed it into his testimony in an effort to impress the judge
with his erudition.

Case B: Black female speaker from Chicago:

"*He* _seeked_ *me* out!"

No comment.

-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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                                              -Sam'l Clemens

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