[Ads-l] Reality-TV dialogue, cop to suspect: _is is_

[Jonathan Lighter]

The rule, not the exception, in my recent experience.

JL

On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 4:44 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

> "What you’re telling me, then, is, is that you took a gun with you, even
> though your intention was merely to chat with him."
>
> This kind of thing sounds bizarre, when I hear it. Yet, the fact of the
> matter is, is that I’m an is-is speaker myself. Clearly, it’s not bizarre
> to me when I say it, though it is, when I write it.
> --
> -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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