[Ads-l] like = 'as is the case with; as with''

[Jonathan Lighter]

FWIW, the sentence in question - which is printed as a caption as well as
spoken - is preceded by the printed information that "As with all blood
thinners, Brian and Chris had to stop their professional sports while
taking Xarelto."

So the copywriter (and his or her editors) seems equally at home with
either way of saying it.

JL

On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 1:08 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 7:24 PM, Arnold M. Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu>
> wrote:
>
> > so-called danglers
>
>
> "You won't believe 42 monkeys doing the watusi? Would you believe 42
> Watusis doing the monkey?"
>
> "Don't stop taking Xarelto, like all blood thinners, without talking to
> your doctor."
>
> "[S]ome people have internalized the prescriptive Subject Rule for
> interpreting subjectless predicative adjuncts to such a degree that they
> simply can't escape it."
>
> Sad, but true. Only one rule of speech matters: will the hearer/reader
> understand? If the answer be "yes," then, fuck it. Anything goes.
> --
> -Wilson
> -----
> 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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