_Take_ v. _bring_

[Victor Steinbok]

Did I miss someone mentioning "take it with you"? As in, "you can't take
it with you"? At this rate, we are just running out of prepositions to
make "take" positive...

     VS-)

On 2/25/2012 1:18 PM, Dan Goncharoff wrote:
> I think the connection of "take" and "away" makes the word less
> relevant in a cloud-based environment. Now you bring things with you
> everywhere without taking them away from somewhere else.
> DanG
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> On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 11:20 AM, W Brewer<brewerwa at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Take (your crap away from me) vs. Bring (your precious treasures and
>> let me see). Deictic verbs, as Chuck Fillmore told us. Sending away
>> vs. invitation.
>>

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