Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/08/08

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Was just silly - now is even sillier
From: Stan Yoder <vze2myh5@verizon.net>
Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2002 23:51:33 -0400
References: <200208090156.SAA23076@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>

>I went to Boston once.  Couldn't understand cabbie. Got lost.  Forgot my
Iowa-to-Boston translator.
Phil

Works the other way too: Guy hails cab at Logan airport, says "You know where I can get scrod?"
Cabbie: "Eh?" "Do you know where I can get scrod?" Pause, then: "Yeah, but this is the first time
I've been asked in the past pluperfect subjunctive."

Stan Yoder
Pittsboigh, where we say "you'ns"
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