ADS-L Digest - 22 May 2008 to 23 May 2008 (#2008-145)

[Wilson Gray]

Ain't that a bitch! :-)

-Wilson


On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 9:52 PM, David Bergdahl <dlbrgdhl at gmail.com> wrote:
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> ... and I never doubted "another thing coming" until this thread!
> -db
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> On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 7:36 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> As coincidence would have it, until this thread came up, I had no idea
>> that  "You've got another _thing_ coming" existed, either in speech or
>> in print. I was aware only of the full phrase, "If you think that, you
>> have another think coming."
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>> WRT language, you never know.
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>> -Wilson
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>> On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 10:01 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
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>> > At 1:53 AM -0400 5/24/08, Your Name wrote:
>> >>1919 _Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald_ 12 Aug. 8/3 If you think the life of  a
>> >>movie star is all sunshine and flowers you've got another  thing
>> >>coming.
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>> >>I grew up in Syracuse, NY; and the newspaper there never got *anything*
>> >>right!
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>> >>Actually, right there in Syracuse and environs, I often heard, "You've
>> got
>> >>another think coming."  I never once heard
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>> > My only question is how could you tell (for the spoken version)? The
>> > vector for reanalysis would be that precise construction, which could
>> > be heard either way.  Newspaper renderings would be another story, of
>> > course.
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>> > LH
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>> >>(nor read in the newspaper),
>> >>"You've got another thing coming."
>> >>
>> >>Rosemarie
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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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