[Ads-l] "Towed truck"
Herbert F. Stahlke
hfwstahlke at GMAIL.COM
Sun Nov 22 00:30:14 UTC 2020
The first instance of a counter ice-cream phrase?
On November 21, 2020, at 12:31 PM, Randy Alexander <strangeguitars at gmail.com> wrote:
But, a towed towed truck should be something that a truck truck truck tows,
so a towed truck should be something that a truck truck tows.
On Sun, Nov 22, 2020, 00:09 Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
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> =46rom a notice today on our local Nextdoor Whitneyville neighborhood =
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> TOWED TRUCK. Anyone with towed truck or Triple AAA? I need to bring my =
> car to the junk yard please I will pay whoever does me the favor please
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> [Just noticed the =E2=80=9CTriple AAA=E2=80=9D, which I guess goes in =
> the "ATM machine=E2=80=9D bin.]
> Pretty sure I=E2=80=99ve never seen =E2=80=9Ctowed truck=E2=80=9D before =
> (other than for trucks that were towed), but we=E2=80=99ve encountered =
> similar reanalyses. Given the iteration, it=E2=80=99s unlikely to be a =
> typo.
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