_Take_ v. _bring_

[Laurence Horn]

On Feb 25, 2012, at 1:28 PM, Victor Steinbok wrote:

> Did I miss someone mentioning "take it with you"? As in, "you can't take
> it with you"?

Maybe people hearing "You can't take it with you" figure they can bring it with them instead.

LH

> 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
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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