"Something there is that doesn=?windows-1252?Q?=92t_?=love retroactivity."

Arnold Zwicky zwicky at STANFORD.EDU
Mon Jan 6 16:09:21 UTC 2014


On Jan 6, 2014, at 7:45 AM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at GMAIL.COM> wrote:

> I saw this today in the NYTimes:
> http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/06/opinion/greenhouse-crack-cocaine-limbo.html
>
> It feels wrong to me, but I can't put my finger on it. Is it technically
> correct, but too Yoda-like? Help, please.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mending_Wall

Robert Frost, Mending Wall, beginning:
Something there is that doesn’t love a wall...

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