[Lexicog] Re: Digest Number 419

[Andrew Dunbar]

On 9/6/05, adrian_p_smith <adrian_p_smith at yahoo.com> wrote:
> --- In lexicographylist at yahoogroups.com, Simon Wickham-Smith
> <wickhamsmith at g...> wrote:
> > yo!
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> > Re like verb to like - check out, dudes and dudettes, the 
> > use of the verb to go in the sentence "I go all weak at the 
> > knees when I see her".  The speaker clearly is in no 
> > position to go anywhere, yet it's an acceptable use of 
> > metaphorical language.  'He's going mad", too, is another 
> > example.  We use this verb in many many situations in which  
> > to become would be more literal.  
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> A restricted bunch of mainly negative expressions. Apart from colours,
> there's blind, deaf, bald, bankrupt, mad, crazy, apeshit, ballistic
> and a few others (I've heard 'non-linear', which was cute). Try saying
> "I went happy" and see how many people applaud your creativity.

As opposed to to "I became happy"?

Andrew Dunbar.

> > As David says, here it 
> > seems that mimesis is becoming a more common descriptive  
> > tack.  It seems, sadly, that it's just the fear of young 
> > persons and their vulgar corruption of our beautiful and 
> > rich tongue which is at work here.
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> Well, when I notice one of them using this mode of expression to come
> out with something not mindlessly banal, I'll concede it the respect
> you seem to feel it already deserves. 
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> "The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of
> older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood." 
> ~Logan Pearsall Smith
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