transitive 'flow'

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 1:07 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
>
>  From a colleague:
>
> >Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 12:54:26 -0400
> >From: Stanley Insler <stanley.insler at yale.edu>
> >To: Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
> >Subject: transitive 'flow'
> >
> >
> >On NPR on Tues, I heard the director of USAID talk about the
> >response to the Haitian earthquake. He said (not absolutely exact
> >words), "Once things were organized, we and other countries flowed
> >all sorts of help into Haiti." Kinda weird to my ears. -- Stanley
>
> I figure if we can grow our economy, we can certainly flow aid into Haiti.

Not to mention surging troops into Iraq and Afghanistan.


--Ben Zimmer

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