[Ads-l] grades on the nerves

[Margaret Winters]

Sounds like something from urban skate-boarding...


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MARGARET E WINTERS
Former Provost
Professor Emerita - French and Linguistics
Wayne State University
Detroit, MI  48202

mewinters at wayne.edu



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From: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> on behalf of Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2017 10:12 PM
To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: Re: grades on the nerves

On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 10:00 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

> grating on a curve


Apparently, "grade on _the_ curve" has gone the way of "drive up _the_
wall" and "have one’s back against _the_ wall" and "cross _the_ line."

Sigh. 😜


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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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