[Ads-l] vom

[Laurence Horn]

> On May 13, 2016, at 10:34 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> CNN: Miley Cyrus Tweets that Donald Trump makes her feel like she's "gonna
> vom."

Possibly a truncation, but I prefer to think of it as a reanalysis: "vom it" (transitive) vs. "vom" (intransitive):
"I ate it and now I'm gonna vom it."
"I drank too much and now I'm gonna vom."  

LH

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