[Ads-l] " Saint Louis linguo [sic]"*

[Laurence Horn]

> On Jan 18, 2016, at 11:52 AM, James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com> wrote:
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> On Fri, 15 Jan 2016 03:05:34 Zone-0500 Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> scribbled: 
> 
> <quote>
> from Facebook:
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> "I was tell my girl about us doing that as kids."
> 
> *A phrase that occurs in the rap, _St. Louis Nigga_.
> <end quote>
> 
> I suggest the possibility that the rapper in _St. Louis N-wuhd_ edited "telling" to "tell" to fit the meter.
> 
> - Jim Landau
> 
On the other hand...

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[note the counterfactual here]

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and so on. Some may be typos, but not all.  Seems like a well-established usage for a number of posters, to judge from Google hits, regardless of metrical considerations.

LH
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