_Take_ v. _bring_

[Joel S. Berson]

I prefer the 18th-century "carry" -- as in "he carried his wife to
Boston", or "the camel that was carried from New England {to New York]".

Joel

At 2/25/2012 03:00 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>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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