double bind

[Victor Steinbok]

My sincere apologies for lack of further examples. This was a fly-by, as
I was working on about five more longish posts (hopefully, not as long
as some of those I've already posted over the weekend and last night). I
simply flagged the example and thought it was a blend. Even that
analysis was simply an attempt to embellish the post, so that it would
not appear to be just another "for the files" message. Many thanks for
the analysis.

     VS-)

On 5/22/2012 12:21 PM, Arnold Zwicky wrote:
> On May 21, 2012, at 8:30 PM, Victor Steinbok wrote:
>
>>  From a comment on G+:
>>
>>> Does anyone see what's the tactic is?
>> This has become typical in comments and I've heard it is speech even
>> longer. Does anyone care or is this such old news that I should just
>> ignore it?
> here's an occasion where i really want to know what "this" is, and would like to see more examples of this phenomenon you claim to be very common.  relevant examples of "what's the * is" are extremely hard to search for.  but in trying to dredge up more examples, i did come across some wonderful stuff of the form
>    what's the EXPLETIVE is
> some examples (of a great many):
> ...

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