Facebook: "[This is the case,] as _for_ noon Nov. 11th."

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Sun Nov 11 22:32:10 UTC 2012


There are lots of prepositions. Just close your eyes and grab one out
of the bag. It matters not.

There's nothing like totally-unmotivated syntactic shifts to show that
meaning is merely context's minion.

You know what I'm saying.

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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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