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Re: life's like a double genitive

#30220 05/30/01 05:22 AM

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But "a friend of Molly" is no more ambiguous and can only mean that and nothing else. Or does it? To me, there is a slight disparaging note to this version: Molly is somehow objectified, compared with a friend of Molly's.

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