Social animals

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Sun Aug 24 04:08:26 UTC 2008


If you have trouble conforming to social morays [see earlier threads
on "social moray" as eggcorn], you may find yourself treated as,
well,...

http://www.syl.com/articles/adoptioninschoolisactuallymorecommonthanyouwouldthink.html
People who have been adopted or are in foster care should not be
treated as a social leopard.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080720182134AA7M7WP
Yes make sure your child becomes a social leopard and a complete
idiot, because you have some unsubstantiated fear that they will go
to hell.
[response to someone who is "appauled that that've taken our Lord
Jesus out of schools!!?"]

LH

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