"He needed _for_ me to tell him..."

[Jonathan Lighter]

> Oddly, simple _for to_ is, IME from listening to "guests" on shows
like Maury, Springer, and The Judges, fairly common....

It is around here. But mostly off campus.

JL
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 7:15 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> The above is from a post to 78thASA. For a very long time, I've had a
> vague memory that I once lived among people who ordinarily used
> constructions like it:
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> "They want for you to go uptown."
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> But I couldn't be certain because I couldn't recall an actual instance
> in which someone spoke that way to me or even an instance in which I
> had overheard it said to someone else.
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> It's nice to see that it really exists.
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> Oddly, simple _for to_ is, IME from listening to "guests" on shows
> like Maury, Springer, and The Judges, fairly common:
>
> "She wanted me to stop by for to drive her to the club."
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