Trespassers will be trespassed

[Laurence Horn]

On Apr 25, 2013, at 3:28 PM, Dan Goncharoff wrote:

> Perhaps someone concerned with illegal immigration has misunderstood
> "forgive us our trespasses".
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> DanG

And perhaps others got even more confused and recalled it as "forgive us our violators"

LH
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> On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 3:21 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:
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>> On Apr 25, 2013, at 12:17 PM, Neal Whitman wrote:
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>>> There's a new meaning for "trespass" going around that I haven't found
>>> in the OED or in my unabridged Random House dictionary, or Wordnik or
>>> even a dictionary of legal terms. In expressions like "Violators will be
>>> trespassed,"
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>> as a reconstruction?  That is…
>>
>> "Trespassers will be violated".   No, that can't be right.  Ah, "Violators
>> will be trespassed."  Much better.  Or at least more humane.
>>
>> LH
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>>> or "He was trespassed from the establishment for two
>>> years," it means "banned". I've written a piece about it at Visual
>>> Thesaurus:
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>> http://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/dictionary/trespassers-will-be-trespassed/
>> .
>>> It's behind a paywall, but here are some of the links I included:
>>>
>>> - a discussion on the English Language & Usage Stack Exchange:
>>> http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/71933/the-use-of-trespasses
>>> - Google Books view of a book on "loss prevention" that has a thicket of
>>> examples of this usage of "trespass":
>>> http://books.google.com/books?id=BNaDkkw6qVQC&q=trespassed
>>> - Mark  Davies' latest corpus, which showed that this usage is common in
>>> New Zealand: http://corpus2.byu.edu/glowbe/
>>>
>>> Neal
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