Re: same-sex feelings

zwicky@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Arnold Zwicky) wrote in
news:dmfkfq$fuh$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

> i was going to collect the wonderful "whom I am" for my files on
> pronoun case in english, but then i realized/recalled that stefan
> meysztowicz is not a native speaker of the language.
>
> zotling, nevertheless collecting some of stefan's discourse for
> a discussion of the tangle of uses for the word "gay"

Do you collect annoying punctuation, too?

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