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echo: english_tutor
to: ANTON SHEPELEV
from: Mike Powell
date: 2021-01-31 13:51:00
subject: New Year`s Day.

> AS>> Not   quite,  on  account  of  grin's  negative
> AS>> connotations.   Consider,  if  you  will,   Son
> AS>> Houses's great song "Grinnin' in your face".
> MP> Well, I did not say it meant "polite smile."  :)

> I appeal to the dictionary:

Maybe it is a regionalism, but "grin" is most used in this part of the US
without negative connotation as a synonym to "smile."  I would agree grin is
a word that requires context, as does smile.

> Here you are -- a rare alternate take:

>    https://freeshell.de/~antonius/file_host/SonHouse-GrinninInYourFace-alt.fla

> Having  no  no loudspeaker connected to my PC, I ask
> to let me if it happens to be the wrong file.

Thank you, I will give it a listen!

Mike

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