Dialect clash
Wilson Gray
hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Sun Sep 14 23:43:01 UTC 2014
A Facebook friend writes,
"It was a bear finding her a place to live."
A "bear"?! How in the world do *bears* find people places to live?!!!
What? Oh. Right.
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-Wilson
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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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