The nefarious "they"

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Thu Sep 22 20:46:10 UTC 2005


"... Seeing as ..."?! Shouldn't that be "... seeing as _how_ ..."? [I
do but jest, of course.]

-Wilson

On 9/22/05, James Smith <jsmithjamessmith at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> Matbe we should call them refugees, seeing as they
> were forced to migrate to the other lot!
>
> > Grant Barrett <gbarrett at WORLDNEWYORK.ORG> wrote:
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> > Nice self-conscious example of "they" carrying a
> > negative payload in
> > a discussion of a parking lot used by gays for
> > sexual cruising:
> >
> > "You would see one guy in a car and then another
> > head would pop up,
> > or they would gather and have sex in the woods," he
> > said. The lot was
> > partitioned off in recent years for official
> > vehicles, he said,
> > adding, "I guess that's when they - I hate to say
> > 'they' but I don't
> > know what words to use - they migrated to the other
> > lot."
> >
> >
> http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/21/nyregion/21cruise.html
> >
> > Grant Barrett
> > gbarrett at worldnewyork.org
> > http://www.doubletongued.org/
> >
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-Wilson Gray



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