Dialect clash

[Dan Goncharoff]

I would say this. There would be a pause between bear and finding,
indicating the start of a new phrase. It only doesn't work when you write
it down.

DanG

On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 10:42 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 8:00 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
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> > 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.
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> 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,
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> "[I looked up and saw that] it was a bear finding her a place to live[,
> like, somewhere for to make her a den].
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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.
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