Re: Ungrammaticalization?
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, July 16, 1999, 19:31 |
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"J. Barefoot" wrote:
> You know, phrases that your parents and siblings understand
> perfectly, but when you say in public, people look at you weird?
Umm, well, my family has a joke/expression "We/I must be living right",
used when something good happens, like getting a good parking space (the
idea being, totally non-seriously, of course, that the good parking
space is a "reward" for living right. :-))
--
"[H]e axed after eggys: And the goode wyf answerde, that she coude not
speke no Frenshe ... And then at last a nother sayd that he woulde haue
hadde eyren: then the goode wyf sayd that she vnderstood hym wel." --
William Caxton
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