[Ads-l] Verb of the Day Award

[Jonathan Lighter]

I think they gotta.

But with the right microchip, they ain't gonna.

JL

On Sun, Aug 29, 2021 at 4:40 PM Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

> > On Aug 29, 2021, at 4:26 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
> wrote:
> >
> > Quora.com:
> >
> > "[Q:] What do you think of Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick blaming
> unvaccinated
> > black people for the Covid spread in his state?"
> >
> > "[A.:] Right wing loon liars gotta right wing loon lie.”
> >
> Perfection on the back-formed compound verb, but I’d have expected “Right
> wing loon liars *gonna* right wing loon lie”.
>
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