[Ads-l] Heard: _perspirate_

[Wilson Gray]

Color-guy, U Washington vs. U Arizona basketball game:

"He sweats - *perspirates* - more than any other guy I've ever seen. Maybe
he ought to think about seeing a doctor."


That's a strange hypercorrection in more ways than one. Why did he decide
that "sweats" wasn't good enough? A sudden attack of P.C. because he
realized that he was talking about a black player?

Youneverknow.

-- 
-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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