[Ads-l] engulf, v. intr.

[Jonathan Lighter]

>  22nd C. ... grammarian

Beep. Concept "grammarian" not compute. Bonk.


JL

On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 1:30 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 7:26 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> "A minute later, the car engulfs in flame."
>
>
> I started to laugh, till it struck me that millions of people see nothing
> wrong with this kind of thing. Perhaps somebody in the 22nd C. will write,
>
> "A minute later, the car is engulfed in flame"
>
> and give some old-school grammarian a chuckle.
>
> Youneverknow.
> --
> -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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