culture-jack(ing)

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Tue Feb 5 02:29:02 UTC 2013


On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 1:08 PM, Ben Zimmer
<bgzimmer at babel.ling.upenn.edu> wrote:
> accompanied _with_ a picture

There was once a time when people wrote

"accompanied _by_ a picture"

Well, that's language-change for you.

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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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