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

[Dan Goncharoff]

I would never address the content on this list.

Thanks to Arnold and Laurence for pointing out the Frost riff.

DanG


On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 11:12 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:

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> The sentence, or the content?  The former (with its unusual but not
> unprecedented topicalizing of an indefinite) is a riff on Frost, "Something
> there is that doesn't love a wall" ("Mending Wall").
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> LH
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> On Jan 6, 2014, at 10:45 AM, Dan Goncharoff wrote:
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> > I saw this today in the NYTimes:
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> http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/06/opinion/greenhouse-crack-cocaine-limbo.html
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> > It feels wrong to me, but I can't put my finger on it. Is it technically
> > correct, but too Yoda-like? Help, please.
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> > DanG
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