[lit-ideas] Re: Erratum: Re: Re: OLD JOKES

  • From: Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 16:38:57 -0700


I wrote: "There's prize for winning."  Not only bad grammar, but wrong.
Should be: There's no prize for winning.

My brain just inserted the 'no' on its own. In this case, a perceptual failure led to a semantic truth.

Robert Paul
Presbyopia, Kansas



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