[Ads-l] "substitute" woes

[Jonathan Lighter]

Update:

2019 Bowling Green Daily News
https://www.bgdailynews.com/blogs/reel_to_reel/midway-fails-to-get-off-the-runway/article_6a6f9b33-ad9c-53d3-adf0-e9ea8b5c9dc6.html

It's an overstuffed CGI extravaganza that substitutes humanity for special
effects.

JL

On Sat, Sep 17, 2016 at 9:18 PM Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ersetzen takes as its object the thing being replaced, and durch is the
> preposition used with the thing coming in to take its place.
>
> On Sep 17, 2016 2:15 PM, "Wilson Gray" <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Sat, Sep 17, 2016 at 1:02 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Not sure which verb you're thinking of
> >
> >
> > That makes two of us! Even more anecdotally, back in the '80's a friend
> > told me of thinking that he was going to have to revise his thesis after
> > reading a German Accepted Authority's statement that he interpreted to
> the
> > effect that "X is substituted by Y," when his entire thesis was based on
> > the assumption that Y is replaced by X. Resorting to a good
> German-English
> > aborted the myocardial infarction.
> >
> > --
> > -Wilson
> > -----
> > All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
> > come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
> > -Mark Twain
> >
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