"When you _victim-blame_..."

[Jonathan Lighter]

definately in the mainstreem of 2morros inglish.

JL


On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 4:32 PM, Benjamin Barrett <gogaku at ix.netcom.com>
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> FWIW, I see a lot of these expressions in technical writing. I recently =
> tried to change "pattern-form" to "form into a pattern" and was =
> corrected. BB
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> On Jul 31, 2014, at 1:23 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > My impression is that this kind of structure has definitely moved away
> > from, IMO, a joke and may be headed to "unremarkable, perhaps even to
> > "ordinary." Or the novelty may wear off too quickly and it'll die out.
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