Query

[Jim]

Mr. Lawless asks:

Which do you consider more colloquial in US speech?

We killed them all.

We killed all of them.

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My first inclination is to identify the French adjectival placement--"them
all"--as US colloquial speech. ("all" as adjectival modifying "them")


But I think there is a better question to ask here...

	Which one of these two best represents US Foreign Policy?

:)



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Subject: Query

Which do you consider more colloquial in US speech?

We killed them all.

We killed all of them.