"which we will get through this"

[Tom Zurinskas]

"Every day, people choose to do the right thing. As an insurance company, we do too"--

Does this mean that most insurance companies don't?  ;-)  ie., (even though we are an insurance company, we do too)


Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL5+
see truespel.com


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> Sender: American Dialect Society
> Poster: Laurence Horn
> Subject: "which we will get through this"
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> A currently airing commercial for Liberty Mutual Insurance--to
> illustrate the take-home message, "Every day, people choose to do the
> right ting. As an insurance company, we do too"--depicts a working
> class salt-of-the-earth type paterfamilias addressing his
> three-generation family around the dinner table in a strong regional
> (mountain/Southern) accent:
>
> "Things at work are...changing, just a little bit right now. There's
> been some layoffs, and I don't know far that's gonna go. Some of the
> promises that we made, your mother and I, they have to be put on hold
> for a while. Now this can turn around, it can change. But as of
> right now, we kinda gotta tighten the belt. Which we *will* get
> through this."
>
> LH
>
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