to instant hold; to emergency land

[Dan Goncharoff]

"Instant Hold" is a trademarked feature of the La Quinta app.
DanG


On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 8:55 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:

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> Current La Quinta commercial: "John can instant hold his room for tonight
> with one finger and his phone num ber."
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> http://hannah-animal-tales.blogspot.com/2012/05/hamster-causes-plane-to-emergency-land.html
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> "Hamster causes a plane to emergency land."
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> An emerging (or should I say "fully emerged"?) Inglish grammatical feature,
> not just a bunch of nonce-words.
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> JL
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