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   Bob to Bob   
   Re: deflating lines for literature, dram   
   29 Dec 21 09:46:47   
   
   From: robgood@bestweb.net   
      
   On Wednesday, December 22, 2021 at 10:35:23 AM UTC-5, Bob wrote:   
   > On Thursday, December 9, 2021 at 5:32:57 PM UTC-5, Bob wrote:   
   > > Will that be before, or after Moon go in front of it?   
   > What's that sort of grammar a cliche of?   
   The grammar says something about the speaker's knowledge that's contradicted   
   by the content.   
      
   > > Get off this mountain and come home to take care of our kids.   
   > Who would you be surprised was married and had kids?   
   And was talking from a mountain?   
      
   > > What have you done with our school books?   
   > Think of someone who might've done something thought to be "big" in the   
   vicinity of school books.   
   The deflating aspect being in the nature of reversed priorities.   
      
   Bob in Andover   
      
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