[Ads-l] "crime" (v)?

[Benjamin Barrett]

I didn’t hear the audio, so I don’t know the intonation, but my preferred reading is what you call a stretch. That seems very much in line with how he talks. FWIW. BB

> On 2 Sep 2016, at 06:01, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU> wrote:
> 
> Donald Trump, in his major immigration speech Wednesday (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/08/31/heres-what-donald-trump-said-in-his-big-immigration-speech-annotated/):
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> "We will terminate the Obama administration's deadly, and it is deadly, non-enforcement policies that allow thousands of criminal aliens to freely roam our streets, walk around, do whatever they want to do, crime all over the place."
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> Stephen Colbert on The Late Show last night was sure Trump was using "crime" as a verb ("they crime all over the place, they crime over here, they crime over there,...").  I suppose it could be argued Trump was saying "[there is, as a result] crime all over the place", but that seems like a stretch.

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