Heard on Natty Gee: "=?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=A6_?=are seen as threatening and _confronting_ by others."

[Wilson Gray]

On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 12:08 PM, Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Prolly not a slip.  Cf. the large "amount" or people who say "concerning"
> instead of "worrisome."

Considering that a person who's being _confrontational_ is
_confronting_ someone…

<sigh!> Another one is probably about to bite the dust.
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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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