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[Wilson Gray]

On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 7:24 PM, Arnold M. Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu>
wrote:

> so-called danglers


"You won't believe 42 monkeys doing the watusi? Would you believe 42
Watusis doing the monkey?"

"Don't stop taking Xarelto, like all blood thinners, without talking to
your doctor."

"[S]ome people have internalized the prescriptive Subject Rule for
interpreting subjectless predicative adjuncts to such a degree that they
simply can't escape it."

Sad, but true. Only one rule of speech matters: will the hearer/reader
understand? If the answer be "yes," then, fuck it. Anything goes.
-- 
-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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