[Ads-l] fuck them

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Wed Aug 31 00:33:36 UTC 2016


Yeah, I've run into that.  I just can't read"mic" with a "long" (i.e. diphthongized great-vowel-shifted) "i".  But we're a dying breed, Dubya(s).

> On Aug 29, 2016, at 11:53 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 11:23 PM, W Brewer <brewerwa at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> mike
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> That spelling reveals your age, Dubya. 😉
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> -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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