[Ads-l] Wrong preposition creates impossible situation

Thu Oct 21 16:58:25 UTC 2021

That joke is immature and offensive.

The question is: Are you interested in how language is being used and what significance that has? Or are you interested in using language to support and and enforce existing social power structures?

-----Original Message-----
From: "Bill Mullins" <amcombill at HOTMAIL.COM>
Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2021 12:50pm
To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADS-L] Wrong preposition creates impossible situation

> The following sentence appears in an article on Vox about how abortion is
> portrayed on television:
>
> In “Before and After,” which aired in 1996, 16-year-old Julia gets pregnant
> with her high school boyfriend.

Does this fix the problem?

"Julia gets pregnant under her high school boyfriend."

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