repropriate

[Joel S. Berson]

At 10/22/2012 08:45 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>Reproduce.

Replicate.

Joel


>JL
>
>On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 8:28 PM, Arnold Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu> wrote:
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> > Poster:       Arnold Zwicky <zwicky at STANFORD.EDU>
> > Subject:      Re: repropriate
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> > On Oct 22, 2012, at 4:44 PM, "Joel S. Berson" <Berson at ATT.NET> wrote:
> >
> > > At 10/22/2012 06:08 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> > >>
> > >> 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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