[Ads-l] "eat, breathe, and sleep"

[Arnold Zwicky]

> On Apr 11, 2015, at 6:15 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU> wrote:
> 
> Very nice, especially following all the links and seeing the variants at Ben's post,
> http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002651.html.

> Seems like we might have the makings here of an unsuccessful sequel to appeal to the intersecting audiences for "Eat Pray Love" and "Eats, Shoots & Leaves": "Eats, Breathes, and Sleeps"--or maybe "Eats, Drinks, and Shits" for the PG-13 version.

sorry my posting was so mangled, partly because by sources had smart quotes in them, partly because i misattributed the crucial posting to Mark Liberman rather than Ben Zimmer.

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