[Lexicog] social change in lexicon

[Mike Maxwell]

billposer at alum.mit.edu wrote:
> 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. 
	
FWIW, cavers (aka spelunkers) say of a passage that doesn't peter out, 
"it goes".
-- 
	Mike Maxwell
	Linguistic Data Consortium
	maxwell at ldc.upenn.edu


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