[Ads-l] Dope

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Sun Aug 7 15:10:36 UTC 2016


On Sun, Aug 7, 2016 at 10:39 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

> So "a dope party" will be ambiguous, and stressed differently depending on
> whether it's a compound or adj + noun phrase.
>

Shit, man! That observation is *dope*!


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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
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