Language change: what can you do? (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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Coulda said, "We just need to climb the tree . . . ."


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> The chorus of the song was,
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> "We just just need to reach the sky
> Whatever happened to you and I?"
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> First thought: Well, clearly, they *had* to use "to you and _I_" to
> rhyme with "to reach the _sky_."
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> Second thought: It's probably more likely that they came up with "to
> reach the sky" to rhyme with "to you and I."
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> Youneverknow.
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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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