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 More options Nov 13 2012, 9:38 pm
Newsgroups: alt.usage.english, sci.lang
From: "pauljk" <paul.kr...@xtra.co.nz>
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 15:38:27 +1300
Local: Tues, Nov 13 2012 9:38 pm
Subject: Re: Seeing something on one's own eyes
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"Peter T. Daniels" <gramma...@verizon.net> wrote in message
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> On Nov 13, 1:46 am, "Guy Barry" <guy.ba...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>> "pauljk"  wrote in messagenews:k7smlb$u95$1@dont-email.me...
>> > Whiskers may have been suggesting the pause came after "on my own i-" of
>> > iPad.

>> I would assume it was a conflation of "saw it on my own account" and "saw it
>> with my own eyes".

> Not if it, as was implied, an American reporter, it wasn't. We don't
> have the former phrase (nor can I guess what it means).

Yes, it was an American reporter.

From the general reaction here I am happy to assume that
"I saw it on my own eyes (short hesitation) in terms of pictures and reports."
was his idiosyncratic fumbling up a sentence rather than repeating
a brand new AmE figure of speech.

pjk


 
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