doing stupid

[Laurence Horn]

At 12:54 AM -0400 7/1/09, Benjamin Zimmer wrote:
>Of potential interest: my Language Log post about Gov. Mark Sanford's latest
>admission, "Have I done stupid? I have."
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>http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1549
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>--Ben Zimmer
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cf. also "stupid is as stupid does", which can be interpreted with OV
inversion (= if x does stupid, x is stupid)

LH

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