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At 12:52 PM 11/7/2000 -0500, Johanna N. Franklin wrote:<br>
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> It does mean that he did "drown his dinner in
syrup." The<br>
>connotation is that he did something wrong, as in<br>
><br>
>Can you believe that he just went and wrote that letter without
telling me?<br>
>That cat of yours has gone and destroyed my couch.<br>
><br>
> I'm more used to hearing it as "...went
and...," obviously, but I<br>
>have heard "gone" too (growing up in southern Illinois,
rather rural).<br>
>This construction was mainly used to discuss someone doing something
bad.<br>
><br>
> Johanna, who wants UPS to stop by and pick up her
defective monitor<br>
><br>
<font size=4>Can we assume safely here that "gone" loses the
literal meaning of MOTION? A student thought the MOTION-less
interpretation must be the case--reminiscent of "camouflaged
'come'" I think.<br>
<br>
Sali.<br>
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