Jeremy Renner on the Daily Show

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Sat Oct 11 04:18:24 UTC 2014


On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 11:55 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

> OK, Renner's a bit incoherent here, but it seems as though he's =
> basically saying "the downstream effect of it" with a bit of ellipsis.  =
> I'm not sure he'd have used "the downstream" tout court in a different =
> context.  Not that I know fer sher.
>

I regret the error.


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