"He BE working. He just don't STAY working."

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Sat Feb 9 04:51:52 UTC 2013


On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 9:56 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
> I thought the caps were to indicate contrastive focal stress.

Exactly the proper and expected interpretation.

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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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