[Ads-l] Facebookery: _to dissertate_

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Thu Feb 16 08:23:26 UTC 2017


On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 9:05 PM, Joe Salmons <jsalmons at wisc.edu> wrote:

> Utterly normal at Wisconsin!
>

That’s unsurprising, Joe. The non-native-speaker was describing the
situation in a country in which English is *not* the native language. <har!
har!>
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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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