row

[Robert Orr]

If  NY "Times" "journalists" are not too thick to understand it ......

Meanwhile, there's an Edmind Crispin story (I forget the title) which hinges 
on the confusion between "rowed" (gresti) and "rode" (exat' verxom)




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "augerot" <bigjim at U.WASHINGTON.EDU>
To: <SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 7:37 PM
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] row


>I suppose one should advise Obama and the NYTimes about this:
> Sep 1, 2009 ... I got into a row with one of my college professors years 
> ago about the difference between education and indoctrination. ...
>
>
> jim
>
> On Tue, 27 Oct 2009, Paul B. Gallagher wrote:
>
>> augerot wrote:
>>
>>> All my dictionaries include "row" derived from "rouse" as a dispute
>>> or disturbance, noise or clamor. Who says we can't use it in American
>>> English?
>>
>> My dictionaries, like yours, are full of words nobody knows and nobody 
>> uses;
>> that's what they're for -- to inform users about unfamiliar words. A 
>> British
>> dictionary will certainly list "truck," and "eggplant," too, but in the 
>> real
>> world they call them "lorries" and "aubergines."
>>
>> You can use "row" in America if you like, but you should know that 99% of 
>> the
>> public will either misunderstand you or be completely at a loss.
>>
>>
>
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