[Ads-l] Heard on Forensic files:

[Jonathan Lighter]

Didn't Sue Pine write _Take Me, I'm Yours!_ ?  (Colleague of Maude
Fitzgerald and Gerald FitzMaude.)

JL

On Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 9:47 AM, Margaret Winters <mewinters at wayne.edu>
wrote:

> Of course those who know Latin grammar are also familiar with supine...
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> MARGARET E WINTERS
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> Professor Emerita - French and Linguistics
> Wayne State University
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> From: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> on behalf of
> Baker, John <JBAKER at STRADLEY.COM>
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> I’ll tell you who else knows:  medical professionals.  It isn’t clear from
> Wilson’s quote whether the speaker is a medical professional, in which case
> this is an error by the show, or a police officer (who is not a medical
> professional) or a non-medical civilian, for whom this might be a plausible
> error.
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> John Baker
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> From: American Dialect Society [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf
> Of Jonathan Lighter
> Sent: Tuesday, February 6, 2018 8:48 PM
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> Subject: Re: Heard on Forensic files:
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> Of course. But who else knows that?
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> JL
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> On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 7:43 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com<mailto:hwgra
> y at gmail.com>> wrote:
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> > "She was lying on her back, when she was stabbed, _in the prone
> position_."
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> > He meant to say, "in the _supine_ position," of course.
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> > -Wilson
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> > come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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