another SOTA (the Lyons meet the Jones)

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Mon Apr 30 17:16:15 UTC 2012


On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 12:39 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
> Google will helpfully ask you if you meant

It's only me, no doubt, but Google's use of "_Did_ you mean…" in place
of "_Do_ you mean…" bites the big one.
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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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