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#101895 04/28/03 09:32 AM
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I pronounce them identically, except for perhaps a bit of syllabification of the first in preparation for the contraction.

To me, et, it changes with the emphasis depending on what one is trying to point out, so:

There’s no there there”, or

“There’s no there there”, or

“There’s no there there, or just a flat, unemphatic

“There’s no there there”.



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it changes with the emphasis depending on what one is trying to point out,

well, there's always that.





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#101897 04/29/03 03:54 AM
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The Oxford Dictionary of English Grammar calls it "existential there", while A Communicative Grammar of English calls it "introductory there".

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Gertrude Stein coined the phrase to disparage Oakland,CA a hundred years ago Back then
it undoubtedly lacked the cultural amenities she desired. Such as tolerance of the love that
dared not speak its name.

Oakland must have been just a wide place in the road in those days. Not even a jerkwater town.
(From days of steam locotives that had to stop for water, obtained by pulling down the filling
spout, which caused water to flow into the tank on the locomotive tender.

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