[Ads-l] Headline of Facebook thread:

[Laurence Horn]

> On Apr 16, 2016, at 2:50 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 10:53 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
> wrote:
> 
>> Disappointingly, he doesn't actually say this in the video posted under
>> the headline:
>> 
> 
> Don't be such a purist. Isn't the fact that the writer of the headline said
> it close enough for government work?

A syntactic dialectologist can dream, can't he?

> In the article that I read, I saw what
> _Kasich_ said, as opposed to the way that the headline read, but I wasn't
> disappointed thereby. That's why I wrote "headline" and not "quote."
> 
> 
> -- 
> -Wilson
> -----
> 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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