Another SOTA?

[Laurence Horn]

>What does 'SOTA' mean?

Sign Of The Apocalypse.

LH

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>>>>  sagehen at WESTELCOM.COM 6/8/2006 4:44 PM >>>
>>"Who I am today is _whom_ I've always wanted to be."
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>>-Wilson Gray
>>~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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>  Is  the thought or the expression the candidate for SOTAcy?
>
>The "whom" could be defended under the  Subject of an Infinitive is in the
>Accusative case,  which sometimes does & sometimes apparently doesn't apply
>in English grammar.  We had some discussion of this  years ago....maybe '99
>or 2000.
>
>I wanted her to become an astrophysicist.
>I've always wanted me to become who I am today.
>
>Can't say much for the felicity of either of these ways of saying this!
>AM
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