[Ads-l] A question of dialogue

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Mon Jun 1 23:06:37 UTC 2015


"Why would anyone have it _out_ for Bronson?"

Someone had it in for the script-writer, perhaps. Language-change in
progress, again, since I've come across "in" replaced by "out," in this
context, numerous of ;-) times, over the past dekkids.

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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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