ATD p186

[Jasper Fidget]

Interesting -- as an eastern US regionalist I can attest that to me the
word "that" reads like a brick wall in the way of the rest of the
sentence.

On Sat, 2006-11-25 at 09:30 -0800, the Robot Vegetable wrote:
> > > "...it seemed like that the whole firmament was coming unstitched."
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> I haven't a DARE, but as a western US regionalist I can attest that
> flows right off my tongue.
> 
> It was like that the whole hillside slumped off.
> 
> It was like that the river ate the town.
> 
> It was like that the whole phrase just slipped out of my mouth.
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