profiling

[Neal Whitman]

It strikes me as nothing more than the same kind of middle-voice
alternation you get with "embarrass," "frighten," "print" (your receipt
is printing), etc.

Neal

On 3/14/2013 9:05 PM, Cohen, Gerald Leonard wrote:
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> The use of  "profile" below seems to be under the influence of French "se profiler" or German "sich profilieren" (or both). Maybe other European languages have this usage too.
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> Gerald Cohen
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> Jonathan Lighter wrote, March 14, 2013 4:50 PM:
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> Inglish marches on.  CNN, Feb. 28
> http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1302/28/es.05.html  :
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> "But one thing that they would be almost unanimously saying is that the
> next pope has to profile as a reformer on the sex abuse scandals."
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> He has to "match the psychological or behavioral profile (of); fit the
> description (of); be describable; look like."
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> JL
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