Dialect clash

[Laurence Horn]

On Sep 14, 2014, at 7:43 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:

> 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.
> 

Or possibly a (female, southern) bear saying to herself, "I've gotta find me a place to live--those cubs are on the way".  The ursine dative.

LH
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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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