One happy language!

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Fri Sep 2 01:40:55 UTC 2011


On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Charles C Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu> wrote:
> And how many of the "happy" words were modified or preceded by "not," "anything but," "far from," "never will be," and the like?

A telling point, Charlie!:-)

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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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