Prom time . . . .

[Charles Doyle]

Yes, I know Larry does that!  Although I probably won't be
using the recollections for blackmail purposes, I remember
Larry from when he was a baby linguist, an enfant terrible,
at the U of Southern California--long before he grew into a
senex terribilis.

--Charlie

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---- Original message ----
>Date: Tue, 2 May 2006 10:41:52 -0700
>From: "Arnold M. Zwicky" <zwicky at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU>

>On May 2, 2006, at 10:14 AM, Charles Doyle wrote:
>
>> Larry, that sentence-initial, sans-negative "anymore"
sounds
>> REALLY odd to me!
>
>he only does it to annoy, and because he knows it teases.

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