[Lexicog] social change in lexicon

[billposer at ALUM.MIT.EDU]

Fritz,

I would translate Anderegg's statement as:

	Yes, it will go, but I won't.

However, I'm not sure if that would be a good translation
for an ordinary English-speaker. English-speaking climbers
use the expression "it will go" with the same meaning as
in German. I'm not sure, but I suspect that this usage
is calqued from German. If I'm right in thinking that
non-climbers don't have this usage of "to go", then:

	It's a go, but I won't go.

is probably the closest translation.

Bill
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Bill Poser, Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania
http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~wjposer/ billposer at alum.mit.edu


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