Heard on the Maury Show

[Dan Goncharoff]

Not saying things like "... they both equally grind my grammar's
gears" might help the at-a-glance issue.

DanG



On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 4:18 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 12:04 PM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at gmail.com> wrote:
>> What is grammatically wrong with the statement?
>>
>> I can understand not liking the 'sound' of the 'is is', but "[all she
>> is] is [after your money]" works for me. I would never write it, but I
>> might say it.
>>
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> I don't think that there's anything grammatically wrong with either of
> these questions, In fact, I think that they're both quite, for want of
> a better word, "cute," so to speak. I've posted them because I find
> their structure really interesting, not because I think that they're
> wrong.
>
> I'm going to have to work on making that at-first-glance clear in
> future posts.. Sorry about that.
>
> I'm an is-is speaker myself, so that's not a problem for me.
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