[Ads-l] "first person"

Jonathan Lighter wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM
Tue Jul 7 18:29:12 UTC 2020


Meaning 'second person.'  Yahoo News:

"Addressing the president in the first person, the ad asks 'why do you
think you’re losing, Donald?'"

JL

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"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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