[Ads-l] to victim-blame, vt

[Jonathan Lighter]

Way to go, Wilson!

JL

On Mon, Aug 16, 2021 at 1:29 PM Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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> > truth."
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