[Ads-l] Facebookery

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Wed Nov 7 04:28:09 UTC 2018


See https://ygdp.yale.edu/phenomena/needs-washed, including the maps based on our surveys.

LH

> On Nov 6, 2018, at 11:26 PM, Mark Mandel <mark.a.mandel at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> Sure, haven't you heard that usage before (*needs PassPart* for the
> standard *needs to be Passpart*)? It's midwestern, I believe, and maybe
> narrower than that in distribution, but I don't remember anything more
> about it.
> 
> Mark Mandel
> 
> 
> On Tue, Nov 6, 2018 at 8:50 PM Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> A comment by an Illinoisan:
>> "He _needs sent_ to prison !"
>> 
>> --
>> -Wilson
>> -----
>> 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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