"advocate for"

[Joel S. Berson]

At 9/18/2009 02:16 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>Something like, "Now she's campaigning for world hunger"?

Exactly like.

Joel


>JL
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>On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 1:06 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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> > At 9/18/2009 09:28 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> > >Inglish synonym for "campaigner against."  This has been around for years,
> > >of course, but this ex. seems especially egregious:
> > >
> > >2009 Lauren Collins in _New Yorker_ (Sept. 21) 38: "Anyway, I got up,
> > >because I had to, and once I got on the airplane I collapsed."...[Cindy]
> > >McCain has decided to become an advocate for the disorder.
> >
> > Unless McCain is really advocating for additional disorders caused by
> > people collapsing on airplanes?
> >
> > Didn't I write something once here about similar cases, of writers
> > saying "for" something that was the undesirable alternative?  Can't
> > remember more than that.
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