[Ads-l] "substitute" woes

[Wilson Gray]

On Sat, Sep 17, 2016 at 1:31 AM, Ben Zimmer <bgzimmer at gmail.com> wrote:

> It’s a confusing bit of phraseology


Way off topic, but isn't this the way that it normally works in German? My
opinion of German being akin to that of Mark Twain, I don't have any German
books handy in which to look for examples, needless to say. Having
something available from which to draw an example - "That would be too much
like right," as we say in East Texas.
-- 
-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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