disappearing prepositions

[Robert Wachal]

For me, "passed away" simply means 'died', but 'passed' means going over to
the other side, to one's after death destination.

At 09:09 PM 10/3/2004, you wrote:
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>Subject:      Re: disappearing prepositions
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>On Sep 28, 2004, at 3:19 PM, Mark A. Mandel wrote:
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> > ...And I have noticed what seems to me a wide and possibly spreading
> > tendency
> > to drop the particles from particle verbs. To add to the above example
> > ["pass away", which might well postdate "pass" in the relevant sense]:
> >  - I used to hang out with my friends. My son just hangs.
> >  - "wiped out" 'exhausted, very tired' > "wiped"
> >  - "pissed off" 'angry' > "pissed" (creating transoceanic confusion
> > with UK
> > colloquialism for 'drunk')
>
>i suspect that there are separate histories here.  but a tendency
>towards clipping would be perfectly reasonable.
>
>arnold