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MISUNDERSTANDING

THE LANGUAGE PEOPLE REALLY USE
(or what the linguist said)

His idiolect
		in a personal tenor
		in lexical sets
		of high delicacy
		which rankshifted
		to a level (not higher,
		only different)
		of missing predicator
		comprised of Z elements only
		in triple morphemes
		failed in phatic communion
		with me.

I could have understood him
if he'd only said
(what later I discovered he had meant),
	"I love you!"

      

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Copyright 1989 by Mildred A. Rose,

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Originally published by The Music House Press.
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