[Ads-l] The end is near: "substitute for" replaces "replace with"

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Thu May 12 01:39:53 UTC 2016


On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 9:15 PM, Mark Mandel <thnidu at gmail.com> wrote:

> I’m not sure I’ve ever been more disappointed _in_ a politician than I’ve
> become _with_ Bernie Sanders.
>

Well, if it's re-phrased:

I'm not sure I've ever been more disappointed _with_ a politician than I've
become _in_ Bernie Sanders.

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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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