Language change: what can you do? (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Laurence Horn]

"We just need to swim the sea…"

"We just need to drink some tea…"

"We just need to play some Wii…"

(and that's just the clean ones).  Lots of possibilities.  (Confirming Wilson's second thought.)

LH

On Oct 31, 2012, at 2:28 PM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC wrote:

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> Coulda said, "We just need to climb the tree . . . ."
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: American Dialect Society [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On
>> Behalf Of Wilson Gray
>> Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2012 1:15 PM
>> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
>> Subject: Language change: what can you do?
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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
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>> come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
>> -Mark Twain
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