COME vs GO

Jim Walker JIM.WALKER at WANADOO.FR
Fri Nov 17 20:22:32 UTC 2000


>>      I have been thinking and believe that the constraint applies in
>> other cases too. If you are puritanistic you may want to skip this
>> paragraph and not come/go/get into the following considerations with me.
>> In sexual intercourse a man can only tell his partner that he is coming,
>> not going, I suppose. His partner naturally can only invite him to come.
>> Are there other cases where such a rigid constraint is associated with
>> COME, against GO--or the other way around?

How felicitous is the reference to a "rigid constraint" in this context?

Jim



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