Dialect clash

[Wilson Gray]

On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 10:40 AM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>

The dialect clash lies the fact that, for some speakers, mainly black
and/or Southern,

It was a bear = There was a bear

So,

It was a bear, finding her a place to live

doesn't change anything. But, of course, in real life, hearing my friend's
Northern accent would have reset my internal grammar in time to preclude
any misunderstanding.

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
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