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This morning in Sunday School, a lady was telling how her son had had this stomach virus earlier in the week, and that she had come down with it Friday...and then she came and sat RIGHT NEXT TO ME TO TALK !!!!
No responses needed: I just needed to vent. I'll delete this in a couple of days.
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...and then she came and sat RIGHT [ DOWN ] NEXT TO ME TO TALK ! Now now, Jackie, we all make mistakes. Like, for example, you left out the word "down" in your post. A reader up north might mistakenly think that the germ-carrying woman had sat down in the pew right next to you and not to the left of you but on your immediate right. The northern dictionaries, you see, don't carry the definition of "right" that means "close up".  Don't thank me.
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Don' you pay that Milo feller no never mind, Jackie. This here Northerner din't mistake you none.
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Northerner din't mistake you noneNor this one neither. As a matter of fact, that particlar usage is so familiar, I couldn't quite figger where Mr. Milo was comin from.
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Thanks, you-all. I actually debated with myself whether to put the word in. Guess I won't delete my post, now. I'll up-chuck-I-mean-date in a couple of days.
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I say that Jackie's meaning was clear to any speaker of Standard American English, i.e., meaning four under the heading adverb in the following AH entry: http://www.bartleby.com/61/37/R0243700.htmlExactly or just. Sorry to hear about your stressing situation, Jackie.
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Wonder what a down-chuck would be? Just wonderin'...
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Hell, if you'd wrote "down" I'd of thought the pew off kilter.
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Inselpeter, you and jheem must stay current. Don't you two remember the hit folk song that was popular in the folk revival of the sixties...
Walk right in, set right down.
Daddy let your mind roll on.
Note they didn't say...
Walk exactly in, set exactly...[blank].
Get with it guys, keep current.
Everbody's talking about a new way of walking
Do you want to lose your mind?
walk right in step right down.
Daddy let you mind roll on.
The Prescriptivist Trio, 1962
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