that needs painted

[Laurence Horn]

At 8:11 PM -0500 2/6/11, Wilson Gray wrote:
>On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 7:28 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
>
>>  _Your_ statement
>
>Not mine, exactly, but Wikipedia's. Surely, you can not seriously
>believe that I could be the origin of such an egregious error, were
>the examples of mine own making?!
>
Sorry 'bout that.  I was waylaid by your Wilson-and-Barbara dialogue
in which the "It's hard to find a job, anymore" figures.  But on
closer examination, I see that the source for this part of the
Wikipedia entry is Labov, so maybe he's the one I need to pick a bone
with...

LH

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