[Ads-l] Did Comey setup Flynn?

[Mark Mandel]

Though I wonder, come to think of it: Do non-spacers use the same stress
pattern on the verb as on the noun? After all, how often do we *hear the
pronunciation* of those whose *spelling we read?*

Mark

On Fri, Dec 14, 2018, 10:29 AM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com
wrote:

> My experience matches Mark's.
>
> It's been going on for at least several years - probably more. The verb is
> stupidly spaced like the noun, even though the stress pattern theoretically
> differs.
>
> On Fri, Dec 14, 2018 at 10:02 AM Mark Mandel <mark.a.mandel at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I seem to see this happening almost everywhere. A particle verb V+
> space+P
> > whose nominal form is a single word, V+P, is for many speakers and
> writers
> > also becoming a single word when the verb is not inflected. And in speech
> > the particle is unstressed, unlike the two-word form.
> >
> > Mark Mandel
> > *Happy Beethoven's birthday!*
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Dec 14, 2018, 2:01 AM Galen Buttitta <
> > satorarepotenetoperarotas3 at gmail.com wrote:
> >
> > > Huh, odd. “Setup” is merely a noun for me—the verb form is “set up”.
> > >
> > > > On Dec 14, 2018, at 01:30, W Brewer <brewerwa at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hannity FoxNews headline 1:20 ET:
> > > > "DID COMEY SETUP FLYNN?"
> > > > As if "FLYNN" were a computer program to be setup?
> > >
> > >
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