a new complement-taking verb

[Benjamin Fortson]

That's brilliant. Kind of the opposite development that "ejaculate"
underwent!

Ben

On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, Arnold Zwicky wrote:

> i suppose it was inevitable, given the metaphorical extension of
> "masturbate" i talked about briefly a little while ago.  here's a
> sentence from a posting to the newsgroup sci.lang today (from a poster
> notably down on the chinese):
>
>  >While Chinese dorks were masturbating how great their Chinese
>  >character inventions were, Koreans took a step further to educate
>  >the common people.
>
> arnold (zwicky at csli.stanford.edu)
>