[Ads-l] A new "your/you're, their/there" a-bornen?

GUY LETOURNEAU Owner guy1656 at CENTURYLINK.NET
Fri Mar 6 20:05:51 UTC 2015


I find it interesting to compare "Will see' and 'Will do' as responses.

- GLL

PS: Guff-a-low bals won't you come out tonight?

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"Will see. My crystal bal [sic] has been pretty damn good."

In context, this should be "We'll see."

-- 
-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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