[Ads-l] Facebookery: _to dissertate_

Joe Salmons jsalmons at WISC.EDU
Thu Feb 16 02:05:39 UTC 2017


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-------- Original message --------
From: Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
Date: 2/15/17 20:00 (GMT-06:00)
To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: Facebookery: _to dissertate_

Posted by a non-native-speaker:

"Everybody is _dissertating_ in English."

--
-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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