"Cock"

[Laurence Horn]

At 8:36 PM -0500 2/10/11, Wilson Gray wrote:
>[...]
>
>But then, the ordinary pornographer probably has no familiarity with
>the very likely now-obsolete phrase, "come to climax" and its
>mirror-image, "bring to climax." Or should that be, "take to
>climax"?;-)

cf. intrans. "come off", trans. "bring off".  But while "Robin
brought Dana off" is perfectly acceptable (modulo the slight archaism
Wilson notes), "Robin brought Dana" cannot be interpreted as the
causative counterpart of "Dana came".  Funny language we've got here.


LH

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