Fwd: FW: Re: Disappeared as transitive (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Amy West]

Bill Mullins couldn't send this to the list: he did the legwork that I
didn't and found some 1900s cits for "disappear" vt from stage magic
contexts.

It could be that there are two strands of influence: the stage magic and
then the Argentine. (I know that for me that transitive disappear has
that particular political connotation when used of a person because of
that context.)

---Amy West

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Subject:        FW: Re: Disappeared as transitive (UNCLASSIFIED)
Date:   Tue, 19 Mar 2013 15:41:48 -0500
From:   Mullins, Bill CIV (US) <william.d.mullins18.civ at mail.mil>
To:     <medievalist at W-STS.COM>
CC:     Ben Zimmer <bgzimmer at BABEL.LING.UPENN.EDU>



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Ms West -- for some reason, my posts have stopped appearing on the
ADS-L.  Feel free to forward this to the list if you like.

FYI . . . .

Bill Mullins

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> _The Conjurers' Monthly Magazine_ Dec 15, 1907 p 106 col 2 "Here on a
> dock, with no traps, in full view, right under my very nose the
> professor had successfully disappeared the boy."
>
>
> _The Sphinx_ June 1916 p 64 col 2
> "Julius used silks which changed colour at will, disappeared a glass
of
> water and reproduced it, disappeared a glass of water and reproduced
> it, and finished up with a tube trick and cards."
>
> _The World's Fair_ 11/6/1937 p 12 col 5
> "His final item gave the members a shock, for he disappeared a
> handkerchief into a Stodare Egg and revealed the secret in such a
> manner that the members didn't know whether to sympathize with him or
> curse him when, with unruffled composure, he proceeded to to [sic]
show
> the visitors how it was done and finally surprised everyone by showing
> it was a real egg after all."
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> > On 3/19/13 12:00 AM, Automatic digest processor wrote:
> > > "It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good grammar. What the hell
> > does
> > > it mean when they disappear somebody?"
> > >
> > > "I don't know."
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> > >
> > > JL
> > Coming into the conversation late: any parallels in use of "vanish"?
> > And what about not Argentina, but stage magic as a source of this
> > transitivity?
> >
> > (Just brainstorming at this point: haven't done the legwork yet.)
> >
> > (Apologies if this has already been suggested. . . )
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> > ---Amy West
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