"She came home to _early vote_." [NT]

[Jonathan Lighter]

Just got a call from the robotized but still bubbly-sounding wife of a
local candidate urging me to "early vote."

The robot said she "hates these automatic calls too." So her politician
husband obviously forced her to record them.


JL


On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 7:25 PM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Also, when you "vote early", you may also be "voting often", and that is
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> On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 8:39 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com
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> > As I suggested a while back, it's big on CNN.
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> > When you "vote early," you're just voting.  Blah. When you "early-vote,"
> > you're doing something cool and special.
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> > JL
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> > On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 11:42 PM, Paul Frank <paulfrank at post.harvard.edu
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> > > Rachel Maddow used the verb "to early-vote" and the past participle
> > > "early-voted" many times in the week leading up to the election.
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> > > On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 11:08 PM, Arnold Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu>
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> > > > On Nov 10, 2012, at 12:52 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> > > >> edited; quoted in TIME
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> > > > on my blog:
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> > > > AZ, 11/2/08: Early/absentee vote (the verbs):
> > > >  http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=795
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