Re: OT: WAY OT: Re: OT: Re: What? the clean-shaven outnumber thebearded?

On Tue, 20 May 2003 21:13:43 -0500 Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...>
writes:
> Robert B Wilson wrote:
> > it doesn't?  i use it all the time!
>
> You do?  Give me an example, then, that doesn't use a fixed phrase
> like
> "God bless" or "God forbid".  I've never heard of any dialects that
> preserve 3rd person imperative
i usually use it with "God", but it is by no means restricted to certain
phrases:
"God make <song> play on the radio." (the song actually played on the
radio, too... in spite of the fact that it wasn't listed on the radio
station's web site as one of the next 5 songs they were going to play!)

--
Robert Wilson (aka kuvazokad, eltirno, edeí...) (who just cranked his
stereo to 11...)
http://www.kuvazokad.tk/ -- http://kuvazokad.free.fr/
http://www.bultarswan.tk/
vkky vnkynvj vknyknj ykkv knvy?  karkalone kontoko?  kinsi rorotan kinsa
nadas?  baitta ke farzaiyai?  qxracc pqqattiircx iia kxqqhwiiallccre?
spreken þu viserdya? pake biru ka pa rede?

"boys speak in rhythm
and girls just lie."
  -- anberlin - "foreign language"

"i put out disco's inferno in the early eighties
i would not be in a boy band, punk gets all the ladies
i could take the backstreet boys or hanson or n'sync
britney spears and ricky martin, we all think you stink"
  -- trendy - "punk rocker"

"and i'm only gonna pierce my left ear
and i've been workin on this mustache all summer long
and my favorite band will always be tears for fears
and i'm gonna wear a pink tux to the prom"
  -- relient k - "in love with the 80's"

"don't try to shut me up
don't try to put words in my mouth
i'm not about plastic skin
i gotta get out, i gotta get out, in"

 -- (hed) P.E. - "blackout"

narav teraz' iroti
kojes krat erarota
kuna, ysivaz' entas
naradas krat zuny narav
kuraz dityvyszi, radyji, sa rodyji
dimokrosi zosa endas
d' erensa dades kirs ins wiz

"They are not in Baghdad.  They are not in control of any airport.  I
tell you this.  It is all a lie.  They lie.  It is a hollywood movie.
You do not believe them."
  -- Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, Iraqi Minister of Information

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