Re: Weekly Vocab 8
| From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, May 23, 2003, 22:49 |
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Roger Mills scripsit:
> Is this the original citation of the Lojban, or are you repeating yourself
> :-)? I wrote my msg. a couple days ago; have been reading comments on the
> "brothers" phrase ever since, but I'm only receiving your msg. at 4.52 pm
> 5/23. Molto strano.
It must have gotten stuck.
> Adam's presumed typo "her" struck my funny-bone, since, as you may/may not
> know, that usage IINM is quite ancient gay slang, and I haven't heard it
> since about the early 60s, and then always from older types. "Oh, _her_
> wants to be a dress-designer" etc. etc.
Haven't seen "her" as a subject pronoun. "She", certainly.
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