[Ads-l] to victim-blame, vt

[Wilson Gray]

>From YouTube, about 1 week ago:

""It still _mind boggles me_ that people can actually afford to do things
like that."

On Sun, Aug 8, 2021 at 9:21 AM Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:

> I tried googling and found these, which I would expect to be replicated
> with other back-formed compound verbs:
>
> Anyway, my mom just drunk-drove me to the theater, where I saw WAR HORSE!
> She drunk drove me home- made out in her parents truck,.
> The night we met he drunk drove me home from a dive bar, pulled over in
> front of my apartment and said, “You know I’m just trying to score right?”
> he asked me to bribe the American embassy to get him a visa, and then
> drunk drove me to my hostel
> i fainted and hit my head and had a seizute #a GRAND MAL seizure #and then
> you drunk drove me to the emergency room and we got in a car accident
>
> Lots of hits for “victim-blamed me” as well.  But it is nice to get them
> in the wild.
>
> LH
>
>
> > On Aug 8, 2021, at 6:17 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
> wrote:
> >
> > CNN just now:
> >
> > "Sounds like she was victim-blaming some of these women that have come
> > forward."
> >
> > Possibly the first time I've noticed one of these constructions used
> > transitively.
> >
> > JL
> >
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> > "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the
> truth."
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