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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font size="2">From: <span class="gI"><span class="gD" style="color: rgb(91, 16, 148);">Pat Barrett</span> <span class="go"><<a href="mailto:pbarrett@cox.net">pbarrett@cox.net</a>></span></span><span><span style="color: rgb(200, 137, 0);"></span></span><span></span></font></p>
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</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font size="2">Subject: <span></span><span class="gI">LL-L "Grammar" 2011.05.01 (05) [EN]</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font size="2"><span class="gI"></span><br>
<span></span><span></span><span></span></font></p><div><font size="2">It's exactly this "...and I sez..." formula that I
saw explained and have been unable to find. The scary answer is that I saw it in
some book I checked out of the university library and so will have to check my
records, check the books out again, and search for this. I'll start around the
middle of May.</font></div><font size="2">
</font><div><font size="2">Wish me luck. </font></div><font size="2">
</font><div><font size="2">Pat Barrett<font color="#888888"><br><a href="http://ideas.lang-learn.us/barrett.php" target="_blank">http://ideas.lang-learn.us/barrett.php</a></font></font></div><font size="2"><br>----------<br>
<br></font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font size="2">From: <span class="gI"><span class="gD" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Kevin & Cheryl Caldwell</span> <span class="go"><<a href="mailto:kevin.caldwell1963@verizon.net">kevin.caldwell1963@verizon.net</a>></span></span><span><span style="color: rgb(200, 137, 0);"></span></span><span></span></font></p>
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</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font size="2">Subject: <span></span><span class="gI">LL-L "Grammar" 2011.05.01 (05) [EN]</span></font></p><font size="2">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font size="2"><span class="gI"><br></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Regarding
Paul’s points below, I know there’s the construction (which I usually
associated with kids from New York in the 1930s and 40s), “Oh yeah? Sez
you!” The meaning is something like, “That’s just your opinion” or “You
can’t tell me what to do.” </span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Some others in the second person:</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Ya pays yer money and ya takes your choice.</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Ya pays yer money and ya takes your chances.</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Ya gets what ya pays for.</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Fats Waller was known for saying, “One never knows, do one?”</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">As for the historical present, it’s the typical way to tell a joke or relate a humorous incident:</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">A priest, a rabbi, and a horse walk into a bar. The bartender says, “What is this? Some kind of joke?”</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Kevin Caldwell</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<font size="2"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Laurel, MD</span></font></p><font size="2"><br><span>
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