"be getting onto"

[Victor Steinbok]

Banal--yes, but not in these parts. Of course, you've been in more
parts, even now we practically share the neighborhood.

     VS-)

On 4/26/2012 9:47 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 8:21 PM, Victor Steinbok<aardvark66 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> was getting onto them
> Nowadays, most people say, "was getting on them." But, IMO, anyway,
> this is "quite banal," as one of my profs used to say, in any case.
>
> --
> -Wilson

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