Is this a good sentence?

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Sat Jan 19 00:41:00 UTC 2013


On Jan 18, 2013, at 5:23 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 7:15 AM, Jonathan Lighter
> <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> "I love me some him."
>
> It's okay, IMO. It's right Dylan-esque.

cf.
Now the Union Central's pulling out and the orchids are in bloom,
I've only got me one shirt left and it smells of stale perfume.
                                                         (Bob Dylan, “Up to Me”)

LH

> OTOH, I choke on
>
> "I love myself some him."
>
> --
> -Wilson
> -----
> 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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