"trouble" = to complicate; problematize.

[Joel S. Berson]

At 10/26/2009 02:00 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>Because prescriptivists are curmudgeons.  Everyone knows that.
>
>Besides, I'm only a precriptivist when something bugs me, as happens more
>and more the older I get.

1)  Curmudgeon.
2)  Things bug me more and more.
3)   I'm getting older.

I knew we were in the same camp!

Joel

>Otherwise, let the good times roll!
>
>JL
>
>On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 1:35 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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> > At 10/26/2009 11:32 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> > >If the novel semantic nuance of "trouble" goes no further than this one
> > >writer (please, please!), so be it. Lexicographers can ignore it.
> >
> > I receive a distinct difference between "trouble" here and "from" in
> > the Beowulf review of Jon's other recent example -- I understand
> > "trouble" as a slightly extended sense of the perhaps more usual.  I
> > can't understand the review "from Beowulf" as making sense.  The
> > former is not wrong to me; the latter is.
> >
> > >However, as so often happens, twenty years from now millions may be using
> > it
> > >in just that way; so it seems wise, nay "proactive," to bring it to the
> > >attention, now, of my fellow Justice League members.
> >
> > Gee, Jon, I didn't realize you were a prescriptivist!  We're in the
> > same camp -- why are we arguing?  :-)
> >
> > Joel
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