repropriate

[Jonathan Lighter]

Reproduce.

JL

On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 8:28 PM, Arnold Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu> wrote:

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> On Oct 22, 2012, at 4:44 PM, "Joel S. Berson" <Berson at ATT.NET> wrote:
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> > At 10/22/2012 06:08 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
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> >> A fellow opposed to gay marriage argued in All Things Considered a few
> >> minutes back that if you're married to somebody of the same sex, "How
> can
> >> you repropriate?"
> >>
> >> I don't know. Frankly, I just don't know.
> >
> > You make the property that you would want back part of the
> > pre-nuptial agreement.
>
> it hasn't been a good day for me, and as sometimes happens with these
> wrong-word examples i can't figure out what the speaker was aiming
> (unsuccessfully) at.  can someone help me out of the fog?
>
> arnold
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