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Old 01-26-2008, 06:42 PM   #29 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Ustwo
I've lived in the burbs too, I'd guess you were in the north burbs.
Northwest...my family isn't even close to wealthy enough to live in the north
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Originally Posted by fresnelly
In my eyes, it may as well read ... "We use a gas stove Shaka, when the walls fell."
You win the thread.
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Originally Posted by inBOIL
I wouldn't say this, but I would use the negative "We don't use a gas stove anymore." It only sounds odd to me in the positive.
Right, if the sentence were negative it would be the correct usage. It's the positive form that is apparently part of a midwestern dialect that I've never heard until recently.
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