[TR] needs repaired

[Wbeech@flash.net]

Never heard that line in Texas. 
Bill

“Cactus Jack drinks coffee black......” M.Murphy

> On Jan 27, 2020, at 3:05 PM, JOE CURRY <spitlist at cox.net> wrote:
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I resemble that remark!  :)



>> On January 27, 2020 at 1:52 PM Ron L'Herault <lherault at verizon.net> wrote: 
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>> I’m an uptight New Englander who was taught English grammar by nuns who had sticks.  8-).     Face Book, was the first place I’d seen this usage.  Now it appears in a mailing list message.
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>> “Needs Restored like that one.”
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>> I look at that and first wonder, needs restored what?   Then deep in the recesses of my mind, I hear Sister Thomasina saying  “You will write ‘needs to be restored’ 100 times on the blackboard. When you are done, you will write ‘needs restoration’ 100 times as well.”  
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>> So, since it is not a Triumph question, if people want to answer privately, super.   Do you use this sentence construction habitually?  In what part of the country do you live?  I was not an English major. I’m definitely not a great writer and don’t spell everything correctly, but I’m extremely curious to find out the extent of the usage and this is a nice friendly group who may be able to help me.
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>> Let’s hear it for fluif.
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>> Ron L’Herault
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