from the movie Dragonfly (2002)
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
gcohen at MST.EDU
Mon Jan 7 16:23:44 UTC 2008
A possible contributing factor here may be anticipation: The first "you" of "You either are or you're not" changes to "you're" by anticipation of "you're" a few words later. So when Arnold correctly says "a complex kind of blend," the complexity may be explained by the anticipation just mentioned.
Gerald Cohen
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From: American Dialect Society on behalf of Arnold M. Zwicky
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Subject: from the movie Dragonfly (2002)
[imdb] Quotes:. Dr. Charlie Dickenson [played by Kevin Costner]: Death
is like being pregnant; You're either are or you're not.
you're either pregnant or you're not + you either are [pregnant] or
you're not
a complex kind of blend.
arnold
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