Behind the curve on reality-TV

[Jonathan Lighter]

An actual native speaker, chosen virtually at random, is not being
politically correct - even as she slurs her own group!?

I can't believe it.

JL

On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 7:11 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Abby Lee, protagonist-coach of Dance Moms, to her students:
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> "Every girl is going to have to perform a solo dance and the
> competition is going to be fierce. It'll be _every man for himself_!"
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> All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
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