Small and Little

[Laurence Horn]

At 8:59 AM -0700 6/17/10, Norm Jensen wrote:
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>>Poster:       Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
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>>At 3:34 PM +0000 6/17/10, ronbutters at aol.com wrote:
>>>It seems to me that, as second language "imperfections" go, this one
>>>is little and tiny. His English is definitely better than my Swedish.
>>>
>>>And maybe he was just attributing to BP the point of view expressed
>>>in the Billy Joel song:
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>>Wasn't that Randy Newman?
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>Randy Newman sang about Short People.
>
To be sure, but my point was that Ron, in referring to "the point of
view expressed in the Billy Joel song: small people got no reason to
live" was in fact thinking of the Randy Newman song.  As far as I
know, Billy Joel never wrote or sang in opposition to capital
punishment for small, short, or little people, as the case may be.

LH

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