I don't go there

[Aaron E. Drews]

On Thu, 20 Jan 2000 Dfcoye at AOL.COM wrote:

}Last June I heard the phrase "I don't go there" for the first time and now
}I'm hearing it everywhere.  I heard it first from a friend visiting from LA,
}meaning roughly 'I don't allow myself to think about that kind of thing'--
}A colleague here used it recently in the form "Don't even go there" i.e.,
}'stop teasing me' in the course of an email exchange on our fac. list-serve.
}Anyone have any guesses as to how long this has been around and where it
}originated?

I noticed my friends from southern California using it in the summer of
1996.  It hadn't made it's way to me in Washington DC at the time.

--Aaron


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Aaron E. Drews                               The University of Edinburgh
aaron at ling.ed.ac.uk                  Departments of English Language and
http://www.ling.ed.ac.uk/~aaron       Theoretical & Applied  Linguistics

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