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Mandatory Sentencing Guidelines

Judge John Hodgman

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Zack's Affectation

There are really two possibilities. One is that Zack and his brother were raised hearing this kind of a construction, they just assimilated it into their natural speech. It seems more likely that it's just this quirky element of her ostensibly beloved partner. And it's just a feature of his idyllect. And ideally, she would find it charming.

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