If Frank Cioffi were doing another edition of his fun _One Day in the Life
of the English Language_ (http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10443.html), I
can picture him doing something with this bit from last night's debate. I
didn't see the debate, but Frank Bruni in today's NYTimes online draws
attention to Ted Cruz deliberately altering a parrallel construction:

<quote>
And then there was Cruz’s finale, when he nodded to the paternity of, in
order, Rubio, Kasich, himself and Trump. “What an incredible nation we
have,” he said, “that the son of a bartender and the son of a mailman and
the son of a dishwasher and a successful businessman can all stand on this
stage, competing and asking for your support.”

“Businessman” didn’t fit. It wasn’t meant to. That was his point . . .

</quote from
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/11/opinion/five-big-questions-after-a-shockingly-civil-debate.html
>

Anyway, if you're spending any time addressing rhetorical decision making
in sentence level choices, you might find the example useful.



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