"Turn on"

[Wilson Gray]

On Oct 12, 2004, at 6:54 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:

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> Me too.
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> JL

Well, then, give the man his props!

-Wilson Gray

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> "Mark A. Mandel" <mamandel at LDC.UPENN.EDU> wrote:
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> Wilson Gray writes (responding to Jonathan Lightner's
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>>>>>>
>> Pei's comments on American slang are often unreliable.
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> Alas! Poor Mario! He just don't get no respect. Everybody puts him
> down. (Long story not worth the telling.)
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> I remember his _The Story of Language_ as part of what turned me on to
> linguistics.
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> Mark A. Mandel, Research Administrator
> Biomedical Information Extraction, Linguistic Data Consortium
> University of Pennsylvania
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