In this game of baseball, you live by the sword and die by it. You hit and get hit. Remember that.
“However, research in the years that followed found that in many of its important features, African American Vernacular English was becoming not less, but more different from other dialects.”
“Besides alligators, the only animals to be feared are the poisonous serpents. These are certainly common enough in the forest, but no fatal accident happened during the whole time of my residence.”