[Ads-l] Heard on re-run of The Office

[Laurence Horn]

> On Feb 27, 2018, at 8:03 AM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> For some of us, all tennis shoes are sneakers, but not all sneakers are
> tennis shoes.

As illustrated for me by high-tops in particular.  Sneakers but definitely not tennis shoes.
> 
> On Feb 26, 2018 11:06 PM, "Wilson Gray" <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> "She gets the 'whitest _sneakers_' award because she always has the whitest
>> _tennis shoes_."
>> 
>> This is the second time that I've come across the mixing of regional
>> lexical-variants in a single sentence. I'm starting to lose sleep!😳
>> --
>> -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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