_for to_ VP

[Wilson Gray]

For me, only the first one is ordinary in every way.

-Wilson


On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 2:36 AM, David Bowie <db.list at pmpkn.net> wrote:
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> From:    Ronald Butters <ronbutters at AOL.COM>
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>> Does David mean,
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>> "I want for you to open this jar for me with your big strong hands"
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>> or
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>> "I want for to have you open this jar for me with your big strong
>> hands"
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>> or both?
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>> I say the former, but NOT the latter.
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> Both, though the latter is, i think, rarer in my speech.
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> David Bowie
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-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.
–Mark Twain

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