Anaphoric search party

[Jonathan Lighter]

The harder the skull, the harder the wiring.

JL


On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 11:32 PM, W Brewer <brewerwa at gmail.com> wrote:

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> <<Instead of sending Tahmooressi home, he was arrested.>>
> Remember, the passive is hard-wired. Cf. the Weiss-Strang-Ng study, from
> early April, as I recall.
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