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Expression: "I am come safe into..." | Difference between understand and understood
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that's what #1 (permalink) Tue Jun 24, 2008 23:12 pm   that's what		  
Does you variant contain the "that's what___" expression below?

That's what bothers me is that we can't get back by dark.
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that's what #2 (permalink) Tue Jun 24, 2008 23:18 pm   that's what		  
I'd say it like this:

What bothers me is that we can't get back by dark.
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that's what #3 (permalink) Tue Jun 24, 2008 23:19 pm   that's what		  
or:

The fact that we can't get back by dark is what bothers me.
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that's what #4 (permalink) Tue Jun 24, 2008 23:30 pm   that's what		  
prezbucky wrote:
or:

The fact that we can't get back by dark is what bothers me.


So it doesn't occur in your variant, right?
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that's what #5 (permalink) Tue Jun 24, 2008 23:51 pm   that's what		  
That depends on what you mean by "variant" -- you mean in my geographical area?
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that's what #6 (permalink) Tue Jun 24, 2008 23:51 pm   that's what		  
I can tell you that I rarely hear constructions akin to the example provided in the initial post of this thread -- it sounds weird.
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that's what #7 (permalink) Tue Jun 24, 2008 23:56 pm   that's what		  
prezbucky wrote:
That depends on what you mean by "variant" -- you mean in my geographical area?


Could be.
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it sounds weird.


How so?
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that's what #8 (permalink) Tue Jun 24, 2008 23:58 pm   that's what		  
I don't know how to explain why something sounds weird -- the best explanation I have is that it just does.

It is what it is!

hehe
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that's what #9 (permalink) Wed Jun 25, 2008 0:07 am   that's what		  
prezbucky wrote:
It is what it is!


That's what.

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that's what #10 (permalink) Wed Jun 25, 2008 0:11 am   that's what		  
prezbucky wrote:
I don't know how to explain why something sounds weird -- the best explanation I have is that it just does.

It is what it is!

hehe


Ok. Thanks.

Just wondering: would "It is what it is it is!" make sense?
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