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[Jonathan Lighter]

What is this sickness called that drives seemingly normal people to obsess
about other people's pronouns?

Not to mention synonymy.

But *pronouns*?  Give y'all a break!   (Or as my students usually wrote,
"ya'll.")

JL

On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 6:24 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 5:10 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
> wrote:
>
> > "Chris wants y'all to give y'all more caviar and grits"
>
>
> "Chris wants me to give me more caviar and grits"
>
> "Chris wants them to give them more caviar and grits."
>
> Hmm. You're right. Wouldn't anybody ever serve caviar and grits in the same
> meal.
>
>
> --
> -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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