ADS-L Digest - 22 May 2008 to 23 May 2008 (#2008-145)

[David Bergdahl]

... and I never doubted "another thing coming" until this thread!
-db

On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 7:36 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> As coincidence would have it, until this thread came up, I had no idea
> that  "You've got another _thing_ coming" existed, either in speech or
> in print. I was aware only of the full phrase, "If you think that, you
> have another think coming."
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> WRT language, you never know.
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> -Wilson
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> On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 10:01 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
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> > At 1:53 AM -0400 5/24/08, Your Name wrote:
> >>1919 _Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald_ 12 Aug. 8/3 If you think the life of  a
> >>movie star is all sunshine and flowers you've got another  thing
> >>coming.
> >>
> >>I grew up in Syracuse, NY; and the newspaper there never got *anything*
> >>right!
> >>
> >>Actually, right there in Syracuse and environs, I often heard, "You've
> got
> >>another think coming."  I never once heard
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> > My only question is how could you tell (for the spoken version)? The
> > vector for reanalysis would be that precise construction, which could
> > be heard either way.  Newspaper renderings would be another story, of
> > course.
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> > LH
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> >>(nor read in the newspaper),
> >>"You've got another thing coming."
> >>
> >>Rosemarie
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