Thread: Why is it that language threads make us crazy?
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Old 04-07-2007, 06:14 AM   #37
DanaC
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Apparently, it used to be possible to satirize people to literal DEATH. The Irish did the same thing to rats--rhymed the rats to death.
'possible' or 'believed to be possible' ?
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