transitive 'flow'

[Geoff Nathan]

In the model aircraft construction world (which I sometimes inhabit), you can flow paint around something with a brush.

Geoff

Geoffrey S. Nathan
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and Associate Professor, Linguistics Program
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----- "Laurence Horn" <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU> wrote:

> From: "Laurence Horn" <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2010 1:07:53 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: Fwd: transitive 'flow'
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> Subject:      Fwd: transitive 'flow'
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>  From a colleague:
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> >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.
>
> LH
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