"Save Growlery! The Social Networks Built of Old Words"

[Laurence Horn]

On Aug 21, 2011, at 3:58 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:

> The article's too brief to be of real interest, but, WTF?
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> http://goo.gl/uZIgu
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> -Wilson
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I was thinking at first that it might refer to a place festooned with growlers, which constitute a new old tradition of their own, as we may or may not have discussed here a while back: cf. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/27/dining/27growl.html.  This time through the article, I was struck by what to me is a marginal use of the personal dative—not in Ms. Thorpe's attitude toward football, but toward Coors Light:

“Good beer makes everything more special,” Ms. Thorpe said while stocking up for a recent National Football League playoff game. “I like me some football, but I don’t like me some Coors Light. So I’m ensuring I will be happy this afternoon.” 



LH

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