name of the quake = Nisqually

[Beverly Flanigan]

Silly me--I was looking for something on language or dialect variation!

At 05:23 PM 3/3/01 -0500, you wrote:
>The subject of the note is "name of the quake = Nisqually" and since
>Nisqually is a common local name around Olympia, I truly did not see the
>point of the original post and still do not.
>--
>Tom Fenton ( tom_fenton at attglobal.net )
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Alice Faber <faber at ALVIN.HASKINS.YALE.EDU>
>To: <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
>Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2001 1:37 PM
>Subject: Re: name of the quake = Nisqually
>
>
> > Well, I thought David was pointing out the "official" name of the
> > earthquake (as opposed to things like Seattle Rattler and the like that
> > were bandied about here earlier in the week). But, now that you mention
>it,
> > "looks to be" seems totally unexceptionable to me. (Maybe it's a New York
> > thang.) It's subtly different from "seems to be", but I'm not sure exactly
> > how, perhaps stylistically; it might be a bit "folksier".
> >
> > As to Tom's question, the "head-scratcher" is, I would imagine,
> > seismological rather than geographic or linguistic.
> >
> > Beverly Flanigan said:
> > >I assume the point is the verb "looks to be"--a variant of the "looking
>to"
> > >usage we've been talking about recently.  But it's different in that,
>like
> > >"seems," it reflects speaker/writer perception rather than
>outward-directed
> > >action by the nominal subject (planning to, intending to).  Neither usage
> > >is common to me (or to Dave, I suspect), but both seem (look) to be
> > >spreading generally today though they may originally have been regionally
> > >restricted.  What do others think?
> > >
> > >At 09:52 AM 3/3/01 -0500, you wrote:
> > >>What's the point? The Nisqually River flows through the Nisqually Indian
> > >>Reservation near Olympia.
> > >>--
> > >>Tom Fenton ( tom_fenton at attglobal.net )
> > >>----- Original Message -----
> > >>From: David Bergdahl <einstein at FROGNET.NET>
> > >>To: <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> > >>Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2001 9:32 AM
> > >>Subject: name of the quake = Nisqually
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>> "They say this latest earthquake, which is being called the Nisqually,
> > >>> for the river delta near its epicenter, looks to be something of a
> > >>> scientific head-scratcher."
> > >>> -- Sat NY Times online
> > >>> ___________________________________________________________
> > >>> David Bergdahl   einstein at frognet.net   tel: (740) 592-1617
> > >>>         home page:      http://oak.cats.ohiou.edu/~bergdahl
> > >>
> >
> > --
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Beverly Olson Flanigan         Department of Linguistics
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