If I were you, I'd make yourself scarce. Was "The cops have been called. ..."

[Wilson Gray]

On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 10:52 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
>> sounds OK and is in fact the more normal-sounding one (which I assume =
> is why
>> the "yourself" version caught his attention).

Yes! You've read my mind.;-) Only "If I were you, you'd make myself
scarce" would be odder, IMO.

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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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