"Turn on"

[Mark A. Mandel]

Wilson Gray <wilson.gray at RCN.COM> writes (responding to Jonathan Lightner's
post):
>>>>>
>   Pei's comments on American slang are often unreliable.

Alas! Poor Mario! He just don't get no respect. Everybody puts him
down. (Long story not worth the telling.)
 <<<<<

I remember his _The Story of Language_ as part of what turned me on to
linguistics.

Mark A. Mandel, Research Administrator
Biomedical Information Extraction, Linguistic Data Consortium
University of Pennsylvania
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