do, v.i.

[Jonathan Lighter]

The people wanted to watch Him do.

JL

On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 12:09 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

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> Of course it was "doh" -- Christ was telling us to prepare the staff
> of life for others, as we would wish others to make doh for us if we
> were starving.
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> Joel
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> At 1/18/2011 10:20 AM, ronbutters at AOL.COM wrote:
> >Herb is no doubt right: "as" = "that which"
> >
> >If He said /du/ using pre-GVShift vowels, He really would have been
> >saying what today we spell "Dow," as in "Dow-Jones." Not being a
> >prophet, I will not venture an interpretation for this putative reading.
> >
> >Moreover, the language of the King James Bible is really early 17th
> >century southern dialect, not Elizabethan. The GVS surely was over by
> then.
> >
> >Sent from my iPad
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> >On Jan 17, 2011, at 11:56 PM, Herb Stahlke <hfwstahlke at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> > > Ron,
> > >
> > > Since, as is universally acknowledged, Christ spoke Elizabethan
> > > English, the "as" may be a relative marker, in which case "as...you"
> > > would be the direct object of "do."  Christ may not, however, have had
> > > fully shifted vowels, and so perhaps he meant, "Doh."
> > >
> > > Herb
> > >
> > > On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 5:58 PM, Ronald Butters <ronbutters at aol.com>
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> > >> Actually, I think what Christ said was "Do unto others as you
> > would have them do unto you."
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> > >> It is transitive if you count the deleted "something" as the
> > direct object--but we find a deleted something in all of JL's examples as
> well.
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