On "Maury" heard unexpectedly:

[Wilson Gray]

On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 2:31 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> quoted:
> Seeing their friends massacred unprotectedly all round them.

For me, there's something strange about _[being] massacred unprotectedly_.

"[NP] massacred their friends _unprotectedly_."

"Their friends were massacred _unprotectedly_."


It seems very strange to me and I can't get it. Maybe it's a "Bell Curve" thing.

Youneverknow.

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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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