ADS-L Digest - 15 Dec 2008 to 16 Dec 2008 (#2008-351)

[Wilson Gray]

You never know. My wife once asked me whether I wanted to hear about
her day. I said no. Of course, I meant to say yes.

-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 Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 12:43 AM, Your Name <ROSESKES at aol.com> wrote:
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> In a message dated 12/17/2008 12:03:38 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, =20
> LISTSERV at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU writes:
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> Judge Penny [pInI], forty-four-year-old, black female speaker from  Georgi=
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> a:
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> "Do you know what a marriage [m&:G] is  [iIz]?
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> Forty-four-year-old, Latino female college graduate married to a  white
> aerospace engineer:
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> "Yes. It's two people compromising "com  PROMising" ["kam 'pram at sIN]."
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> I've never heard this pronunciation  before. Which is not to say that,
> at one time, I wouldn't have used it,  myself. It's only that, as fate
> would have it, I never had occasion to  speak this word during the time
> when I would have said, "com  PROMising."
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> Could she  have meant "co-promising"?  Pronounced CO-PROM-is-ing.    That =20
> would make sense, and a wedding (if not the entire marriage) is, after all,=20=
> an =20
> exchange of mutual promises. =20
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> Rosemarie
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> None are so poor that they have nothing  to give =E2=80=A6 and none are so r=
> ich that=20
> they have nothing to receive.=20
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> JP
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