[ADS-L] LSSU Banished Words list, 2007

[RonButters at AOL.COM]

In a message dated 12/31/06 8:33:37 PM, bgzimmer at BABEL.LING.UPENN.EDU writes:


> GONE/WENT MISSING -- "It makes 'missing' sound like a place you can
> visit, such as the Poconos. Is the person missing, or not? She went
> there but maybe she came back. 'Is
> missing' or 'was missing' would serve us better." -- Robin Dennis,
> Flower Mound, Texas.
>
Then CRAZY is also a place one can visit? But don;t most people say "Go TO
the Poconos"?

It is sooo weird what people will object to, and what sort of strained loogic
they will come up with to try to demonstrate the infelicty of a construction
they have never heard of.
I think this is just a UK-ism that has been around for quite a while.

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