sandbaggers: the cousins

the cousins

Anton Sherwood (dasher@netcom.com)
Fri, 16 Feb 1996 08:04:57 -0800

: > . . . . What bothers me more, Karen [Milner] often uses
: > unAmerican phrases like "might have _done_."

Nicole asked:
: Not sure I understand what you find foreign about that phrase -
: could you supply more context? Sounds like something I say.

"Do you think they saw us?"
"They might have done."

An American (particularly a character played to emphasize Americanisms)
would leave out the last word.

: . . . . He was on a very
: bad movie-sequel-to-a-TV-series (MacGyver?) last year,
: playing an ex-CIA station chief.

What a reach! What next?

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