Dialect clash

[Wilson Gray]

On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 8:00 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

> 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.
>

Nice interpretation, Larry! I missed that one entirely. My excuse is that I
knew that "her" was my friend's daughter going back to college. But,
lacking that bit of context, pretty much the *only* interpretation is
something like,

"[I looked up and saw that] it was a bear finding her a place to live[,
like, somewhere for to make her a den].

-- 
-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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