LSSU Word Banishment

[Peter A. McGraw]

What's more, "peel and eat" makes especially good sense, since it tells you
that the shrimp are already cooked.  (You can peel a shrimp whether it's
cooked or raw.)

Peter Mc.

--On Thursday, December 11, 2003 6:58 PM -0500 Laurence Horn
<laurence.horn at YALE.EDU> wrote:

> At 2:43 PM -0800 12/11/03, FRITZ JUENGLING wrote:
>> I think you've missed the point, Larry.  It's not  peel vs. shell or
>> whether they have shells.
>> The issue was that after you peel them, you DO eat them--you just
>> don't peel them for fun and leave them on your plate.  Why do you
>> need to be told to eat them?
>> Fritz
>>
> Well, I'm not sure about that.  Should "Spray and Wash" be just
> called "Spray" because of course you're going to wash your clothes
> after spraying them (and not just spray them and put them back on)?
> How about "Wash 'n' Wear" clothes--should they just be called "Wash"
> clothes?  I think the idea here might be that you X them and then you
> immediately can and do Y them.  Scratch 'n' sniff movie cards.
> Scratch 'n' play lotto tickets.  Surely there must be an _American
> Speech_ paper on these formations in commercial English?
>
> Larry



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