"[That comment] goes to show how well you know me, anymore."

[Wilson Gray]

On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 10:22 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
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> On Jul 5, 2011, at 9:42 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
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>> In context, this may well have been a tip of the slung for,
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>> "[That comment] goes to show how _poorly_ you know me, anymore."
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>> Either way, it's not quite right, IMO.
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> Seems fine to me as an utterance in a positive anymore dialect, taken either sincerely or (more likely) sarcastically. No speech error, just sarcasm + positive "anymore". Â The presupposition is that you may have known me pretty well in the past, but now, forget it.
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Mine error, my dear sir. I don't mean that my mere opinion necessarily
renders the string ungrammatical. We all speak dialect. Prolly shoulda
used IMD for "in my dialect" or some such.

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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.
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