Failure to fail to apply @-Insertion

[Wilson Gray]

Yes, I've heard that about you, Mark. But I didn't want to believe it.
Well, I don't know what else I can say.

-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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-Mark Twain



On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 8:14 PM, Mark Mandel <thnidu at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I've always considered those to be optional variants: whether or not to
> syllabify the /l/.
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> Mark Mandel
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> On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 7:23 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> My wife:
>>
>> "... hitting the _re-cycle-ing_ industry really hard."
>>
>> Your faithful correspondent:
>>
>> "_Recycling_ industry."
>>
>> My wife:
>>
>> "Yes. They're having real problems."
>>
>> [an interesting consequence noted locally: Harvard, formerly *paid*
>> $10.00/ton by recyclers for the privilege of disposing of its trash,
>> will now be *paying* re-cyclers $10.00/ton for the privilege of having
>> its trash disposed of.]
>>
>>
>>
>> Oh, well. Another addition to my already overly-extensive _Winter-y
>> weather_ list.
>>
>> -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.
>> -----
>> -Mark Twain
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