Timeline for "You are asking a wrong person" vs "You are asking the wrong person"
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| Aug 8, 2012 at 5:33 | comment | added | Bill Rosmus | This is an interesting take on this. It is stretch though. In normal speech you wouldn't say someone is a wrong person. You would say, there is something wrong with that person. Or, "there's something wrong with the person you just asked." | |
| Aug 8, 2012 at 4:26 | comment | added | Bogdanovist | I changed the example to something less clumsy, although it still isn't perfect. | |
| Aug 8, 2012 at 4:25 | history | edited | Bogdanovist | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Removed a clumsy example and replaced with a better one
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| Aug 8, 2012 at 4:22 | comment | added | rsegal | Hmm, I agree with the first part, but I'm not so sure about the second. | |
| Aug 8, 2012 at 4:15 | history | answered | Bogdanovist | CC BY-SA 3.0 |