Heard on The Judges (embedded question)

[Wilson Gray]

Judge:

"Why would they [your neighbors] say that you had had a fight with
your boyfriend?"


Latin-African-American [Sanchez] female native-BE-speaker defendant:

"I don't know _why would they say that I had had a fight with my boyfriend_."


I know that this is not a heretofore-unknown phenomenon. It's just
that this example struck me as a bit extreme.

-Wilson
--
All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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 -Sam'l Clemens

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