[Ads-l] Syntactic blend: "You don't know how long it's going to end."

[Cohen, Gerald Leonard]

I heard the following sentence spoken on TV a few days ago

in reference to the coronavirus crisis:

"You don't know how long it's going to end."

This is clearly a blend of

"You don't know how long it's going to last."

and "You don't know when it's going to end."


Gerald Cohen

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