Date:  Sun, 25 Jan 1998 16:05:14 +0000
From:  Duane Campbell <dcamp[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]EPIX.NET>
Subject: Re: syntactic blends

At 02:49 PM 1/25/98 -0500, you wrote:
>
>2) '"That's the how you got along".'---blended from "That's how you got
>along" and "That's the way you got along." --spoken by Monica Lewinsky in a
>taped conversation with Linda Tripp. The context as presented in the
>newspaper is (with three dots and "sic" in the article): 'LEWINSKY: "I was
>brought up with lies all the time...that's the (sic) how you got along...I
>have lied my entire life".'

I question whether this is a blend, and I think they put the ellipsis in
the wrong place. That's the problem: except for Victor Borge, we do not
speak with punctuation. I suspect what she said was, "... that's the ...
[unable to think of the right word, changes gears] [that's] how you got
along."

Duane Campbell dcamp[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]epix.net
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