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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