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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

“need fixed.”

Oh Gawd. That PA/OH abomination of verbs just can’t even be stifled in writing.


5 posted on 08/24/2019 12:15:23 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs)
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To: the OlLine Rebel
“need fixed.”

Oh Gawd. That PA/OH abomination of verbs just can’t even be stifled in writing.

To be or not to be...in Pennsylwania Dutch there is no "to be".

The cat wants out.
The car needs washed.
The grass wants cut.

18 posted on 08/24/2019 4:32:30 PM PDT by lightman (Byzantine Troparia: The "praise choruses" of antiquity.)
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To: the OlLine Rebel
“need fixed.”

Oh Gawd. That PA/OH abomination of verbs just can’t even be stifled in writing.

To be or not to be...in Pennsylwania Dutch there is no "to be".

The cat wants out.
The car needs washed.
The grass wants cut.

19 posted on 08/24/2019 4:33:01 PM PDT by lightman (Byzantine Troparia: The "praise choruses" of antiquity.)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

‘That PA/OH abomination of verbs just can’t even be stifled in writing.

it’s ubiquitous in Lancaster County; I remember a news headline when I first moved there stated ‘worker wants paid’...shudder...


22 posted on 08/24/2019 6:16:35 PM PDT by IrishBrigade
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