Trespassers will be trespassed

[Dan Goncharoff]

Perhaps someone concerned with illegal immigration has misunderstood
"forgive us our trespasses".

DanG


On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 3:21 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:

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> On Apr 25, 2013, at 12:17 PM, Neal Whitman wrote:
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> > There's a new meaning for "trespass" going around that I haven't found
> > in the OED or in my unabridged Random House dictionary, or Wordnik or
> > even a dictionary of legal terms. In expressions like "Violators will be
> > trespassed,"
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> as a reconstruction?  That is…
>
> "Trespassers will be violated".   No, that can't be right.  Ah, "Violators
> will be trespassed."  Much better.  Or at least more humane.
>
> LH
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> > or "He was trespassed from the establishment for two
> > years," it means "banned". I've written a piece about it at Visual
> > Thesaurus:
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> http://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/dictionary/trespassers-will-be-trespassed/
> .
> > It's behind a paywall, but here are some of the links I included:
> >
> > - a discussion on the English Language & Usage Stack Exchange:
> > http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/71933/the-use-of-trespasses
> > - Google Books view of a book on "loss prevention" that has a thicket of
> > examples of this usage of "trespass":
> > http://books.google.com/books?id=BNaDkkw6qVQC&q=trespassed
> > - Mark  Davies' latest corpus, which showed that this usage is common in
> > New Zealand: http://corpus2.byu.edu/glowbe/
> >
> > Neal
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