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[Mark Mandel]

What do you mean, "back"? Since when has logic been a high priority in
language? (Lojban et al. excluded)

On Sun, Mar 22, 2020, 8:33 AM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> ...
> (I suppose we should say, '"more than one job available," since no "job"
> can logically be "on [top of]" a [figurative] market.  Put the logic back
> in language!.)
>
> JL
>
> On Sun, Mar 22, 2020 at 5:42 AM Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > "The All-_Women_ Mariachi Group"
> >
> > Shouldn't that be "the all-_woman_ mariachi group"? Or should one of the
> > wonders of my lost youth have been "Phil Spitalny and his All-_Girls_
> > Orchestra" and not "... his All-_Girl_ Orchestra"? Or is this one of
> those
> > changes like the shift of e.g. American "this, that, and the other" to
> > British "this, that and the other." Or should that be, '... and the
> > other'.?
> >
> >
> > --
> > -Wilson
> > -----
>
>

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