strangled

[Wilson Gray]

"Kill ... dead" is used as an intensive version of "kill." in BE. Of
course, the grammar merely permits this. It doesn't require it. I
don't want it to be thought that I'm crying Wolof.

-Wilson

On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 10:49 AM, Laurence Horn<laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
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> At 10:31 AM -0400 7/2/09, Joel S. Berson wrote:
>>At 7/2/2009 09:45 AM, Arnold Zwicky wrote:
>>>i suspect that many people are inclined to discriminate transitive
>>>"strangle" (normally conveying an endpoint) from transitive "choke
>>>(not necessarily conveying an endpoint).
>>
>>In other words, "strangled" generally means "terminally choked".
>>
>>Joel
>>
> And then there languages like Mandarin, Korean, Hindi, etc., in which
> if you "kill" someone (with a lexical causative) they don't
> necessarily die--you have to kill them dead to be on the safe side.
>
> And speaking of "terminal(ly)", I just got one of those interminably
> circulating e-mail lists of new useful words and definitions; it
> includes "hipatitis", defined as 'terminal coolness'.
>
> LH
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--
-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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-Mark Twain

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