to "course-correct"

[Dan Goncharoff]

The parallel formations would be:

to free-associate
to gay-marry

DanG



On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 12:24 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 11:40 AM, Arnold Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu> wrote:
>> "course correction"
>
> But you can correct something's course. You can't free something's
> association or marry someone's gay.
> The structure's aren't parallel, are they?
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