"See at" = see to, check; "see in" = look at

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Sat Aug 21 05:02:11 UTC 2010


On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 9:39 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:

> Gonna miss your baby, from rolling in your arms.

It'a black thang. You wouldn't understand.'-)

But, seriously, folks... I've never heard anybody's version of this
song. So, I hesitate even to try a WAG. (I'm assuming that you're
pondering the syntax and not the semantics.)
--
-Wilson
–––
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.
–Mark Twain

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