Revival: someone/somebody

[Lynne Murphy]

Thanks very much to Ron for remembering my query about
somebody/someone, etc.  This info is super-helpful.  I'd had a
suspicion that Bolinger would have tackled this.

Ron said:
>
>The irony of the second part of the sentence is based upon the disambiguation
>of SOMEBODY in approximately the sense that Bologna suggests, i.e., SOMEBODY
>can either be a "real" person that the speaker has in mind ('close') or a
>hypothetical person that the speaker has faith exists (not 'close'). The
>other version of the line

My question:  Does everyone call him Bologna? (or does everybody?)
Never heard that one before...

Lynne
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