Heard on The Judges: the intricacy of English syntax

[Wilson Gray]

Judge:

"It wasn't as though _the children were running around misbehaving_.

Child, approximately five years old, pipes up:

"Judge, _we weren't running around misbehaving_."


-Wilson
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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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 -Sam'l Clemens

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