[Ads-l] Source-Goal Confusion online

[Laurence Horn]

I'd come across earlier cases of SWAP IN [NEW] for [OLD] as well as cases
of SWAP OUT [OLD] for [NEW]. What's weird here (for me, and I take it for
Geoff) is that SWAP X for Y, without the particle, behaves like "swap in",
instead of like "swap out". I can swap my baseball card for yours (or I
could have 50 years ago), but I couldn't swap yours for mine, only you
could.

LH

On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 11:31 AM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> OK. I've got a hamburger. You've got a flying fish. For some reason, I swap
> my hamburger for your flying fish. Makes perfect sense to me.
>
> Similarly, I eat hamburgers daily. You want me to eat flying fish daily.
> You want me to swap my burger habit for a flying fish habit.
>
> JL
>
> On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 11:22 AM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Sounds like a cross between a salmon and a flying fish. Caveat emptor.
> >
> > Otherwise, "swap red meat for seafood" sounds right to me. But at this
> > point, who knows?
> >
> > JL
> >
> > On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 9:44 AM Geoffrey Nathan <geoffnathan at wayne.edu>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> My Facebook feed is infested with an ad from the Wild Alaskan Company.
> >>
> >> Air-flown fresh-caught salmon. Their video boasts:
> >>
> >> 3 Easy Ways to Swap Red Meat for Seafood
> >>
> >> Which (in my dialect) is not what they're advertising.
> >>
> >> Geoffrey S. Nathan
> >> WSU Information Privacy Officer (Retired)
> >> Emeritus Professor, Linguistics Program
> >> https://clasprofiles.wayne.edu/profile/an6993
> >> geoffnathan at wayne.edu
> >>
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