Re: Informants, Issytra, The Gospel of Bastet
| From: | H. S. Teoh <hsteoh@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, March 14, 2003, 21:05 |
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On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 03:19:41PM -0500, John Cowan wrote:
> H. S. Teoh scripsit:
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> > Our captain had a handicap to cope with, sad to tell.
> > He's from Georgia---and he doesn't speak the language very well!
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> Doubtless that would be the Republic, rather than the State, of Georgia?
[snip]
Probably the State of Georgia; Lehrer was making fun of dialectal
differences in American English. Although he could also be deliberately
making that ambiguous...
T
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