In re _re_

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Thu Dec 8 00:22:09 UTC 2011


On the TV show, 30 Rock, a character says something like,

"I'll need to talk to you _re_ some ideas for tomorrow's meeting."


He pronounces _re_ as "R E," as in "I E" for _i.e._!

Maybe it's time to rid English of the moss gathered during the age of
the classical education.;-)

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-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.
-Mark Twain

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