pleonasms

Duane Campbell dcamp911 at JUNO.COM
Thu Feb 14 02:14:39 UTC 2002


On Wed, 13 Feb 2002 19:30:46 +0800 Laurence Horn

> Yes, it heats cold (or lukewarm) water, but its function is to heat
> water hot.  If "hot" is a resultative rather than a depictive, it
> makes sense and isn't really pleonastic.

Dazzling.

I am sure you have other examples of resultive pseudo-pleonasms.

D



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