"Complicate" = "elucidate the complexity of"

[Jonathan Lighter]

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as I believe I'm the only USAn in the class):

That's "You-ess-er" around here.

JL
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 5:11 PM, Dave Wilton <dave at wilton.net> wrote:

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> I just got feedback from a presentation I gave yesterday on 18th century
> grammars that included this written by a fellow grad student (who I assume
> is Canadian, as I believe I'm the only USAn in the class):
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> "Dave did a really great job of complicating the descriptive/prescriptive
> binary w/ his analysis of the 4 grammarians he looked at."
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