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[Wilson Gray]

On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 8:13 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
> "I can't believe anymore that you're hungry", which strikes me as dubious

It does? On the basis of your personal sprachgefuehl, no doubt, given
that neither grammar nor dialect is absolute. Because the "dubious"
interpretation is, for me *personally*, the only possibility that's
not nonsense.

Naturally, I'm aware that that's not true for *every* speaker of English.

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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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