Maybe it's word-order

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Tue Jul 12 22:27:38 UTC 2011


"He was cheating with another woman _on me_"

I don't know why, but the above strikes me as, somehow, exotic and
worthy of note. OTOH,

"He was cheating _on me_ with another woman"

sounds perfectly ordinary.

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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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