The earth v. Earth (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Benjamin Barrett]

FWIW, it sounds fine to me. Not a common thing to say, but surely
nothing that sounds grammatically odd. BB

Dennis R. Preston wrote:
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> There are some very interesting low-level constraints going on here.
> Note how bad (I think) "I had two colds last year" is compared to "I
> had two really very bad colds last year." But that "distance" metric
> applies to lots of agreement features.
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