"Don't Say Gay"

[Jonathan Lighter]

Sound like trick questions.

(Note the minor but surprising oddity of the plural with the
colloquial omission of the pronoun.)

JL

On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 6:01 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 12:16 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
>> This is Tennessee we're talking. Besides, if we're indoctrinating them with The Truth, what could be wrong with that? Â What are you, some kind of God-hating Darwin-loving socialist?
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> Exactly! What's wrong with you, Jon?!
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