[Ads-l] New to me

[Geoffrey Nathan]

Just got back from a month in Paris, where there were posters on telephone poles advertising some politician who was in favor of ‘Frexit’. Productive morphology now…



Geoffrey S. Nathan
WSU Information Privacy Officer (Retired)
Emeritus Professor, Linguistics Program
http://blogs.wayne.edu/proftech/
geoffnathan at wayne.edu



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_Blexit_: a supposed movement whose purpose is to get black voters, who
routinely vote Democratic, to leave the party and vote Republican.

goo.gl/JctsY4

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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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