"Us ourselves"

[Mark Mandel]

In Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 10:48 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

> True, Mark, but we merely said that such forms seem strange, not that
> we couldn't understand them.
>
> -Wilson


Yeah. I was just trying to point out a similarity: The established emphatic
us of "X X-self/selves" can also be expressed as "no other than X" in its
idiomatic sense, as CGEL does; while this unfamiliar use is equivalent to
"no other than X" in its literal sense. I guess I should've said it that way
in the first place.

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Mark Mandel

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