[Ads-l] Heard on re-run of The Office

[Jonathan Lighter]

Yeah, but who wants to use a salient noun twice in the same sentence?

JL

On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 11:05 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

> "She gets the 'whitest _sneakers_' award because she always has the whitest
> _tennis shoes_."
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> This is the second time that I've come across the mixing of regional
> lexical-variants in a single sentence. I'm starting to lose sleep!😳
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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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