Yonduh lies de castle of de caliph, my fadder (attrib Tony Curtis 1961 Nov)

Charles C Doyle cdoyle at UGA.EDU
Thu Oct 20 14:39:17 UTC 2011


I distinctly don't remember his saying that in all of his movies.

--Charlie

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From: American Dialect Society [ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] on behalf of Ronald Butters [ronbutters at AOL.COM]
Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2011 10:23 AM


Is it possible to "distinctly" remember someone not doing something? =
Just curious to see if anyone else finds this semantically anomalous.


On Oct 20, 2011, at 10:19 AM, Joel S. Berson wrote:

>>  (I distinctly remember Curtis not
>> uttering the line in "Some Like It Hot".

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