Re: CHAT: the gay Canadian (was: "have a nice day")

On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, John Cowan wrote:

> Matt Pearson wrote:
>
> > Matt.
> > the (expatriate) gay Canadian
>
> After picking on Dirk's "anymore", I think it's time to pick
> on Matt's "the" above.  Just what does it mean?  There doesn't
> seem to be any definiteness here, unlike "The Gr[ae]y Wizard",
> for example.  "Nick the Greek" was clearly not the only Greek,
> nor even the only Greek in the context (professional gamblers),
I thought his name was Jimmy.

Dirk

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Dirk Elzinga
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