[lit-ideas] Re: The Joan Rivers Appreciation Society

In a message dated 6/22/2009 6:42:28 P.M.  Eastern Daylight Time,
Jlsperanza writes:
or say "X is y years",
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It's odd that in nothing that McEvoy says he mentions the word  'year', 


Oops. He does.
In an abstract way ("y years").

Perhaps the grammar mavens (Ursula's phrase) may inform me as to the
correct:

   "She's seventy-six years old"

It seems the 'old' -- or 'young' in silly affirmative discriminatory
politically correct practice -- is
_necessary_?

In the Romance languages, it's different, in using the 'have' -- as A.
Palma should testify (His first language is Greek).

      Joanna Riviera a settantasei anni.

We don't need to add, 'old' -- that's "implicated".

Don't Count the Candles -- Just Keep the Fire Lit, Joan Rivers ...   Take
it from Joan Rivers—the fight against time has only just begun. .... even
though the average American life span is now seventy-six, even though 33  ...
search.barnesandnoble.com/.../Joan-Rivers/.../9780060183837 - Cached -
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