"Methamphetamine prose"

[Wilson Gray]

I'm in agreement, Essentially, I've kinda-sorta-maybe decided to
re-route my written syntax into the direction of my spoken syntax. Or
not. It matters not. WTF, eh?

-Wilson

On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 9:21 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Sounds perfectly normal to me. In fact, I'm sure I say it.
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> I have no idea how long I've said it. All my life? Possibly not, but a long,
> long time.
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> Would be surprised to see it in formal prose though. The writing part of my
> brain tells me it's nonstandard
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> JL
> On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 9:04 PM, Randy Alexander <strangeguitars at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 9:26 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> > Back in the '70's I read an article about speed that contained an
>> > anecdote something like this:
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>> > Instead of working on 25-page paper due at eight o'clock the next
>> > morning, guy is getting down with his old lady. Suddenly, he remembers
>> > about the paper and freaks. ...
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>> I don't know why, but in contrast to most people on this list, who seem to
>> be more attracted to lexicographic phenomena, I seem to be more attracted
>> to
>> syntactic phenomena.
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>> Googling "remember about" and looking at the first ten results, all of them
>> have "remember" as a transitive verb where the object is fronted, and
>> "about
>> X" is a modifier.  But here, Wilson is using "remember" as an intransitive
>> verb, with "about X" as a complement.
>>
>> Does anyone have anything to say about the distribution of this usage?
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