reversed "blame"

[Wilson Gray]

On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 1:46 PM, Arnold Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu> wrote:
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> first "substitute", now "blame":
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> http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2011/08/27/reversed-blame/
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Perhaps that SF short story, Shall We Have a Little Talk, is entirely
correct, on some level. Languages really *do* change, even as you're
learning them!

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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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