_Take_ v. _bring_

[Jonathan Lighter]

They say that stuff in Dixie all the time.

JL

On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 5:03 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

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> 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]".
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> Joel
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> At 2/25/2012 03:00 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
> >On Feb 25, 2012, at 1:28 PM, Victor Steinbok wrote:
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> > > 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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