[Lexicog] Re: Digest Number 419

[adrian_p_smith]

--- In lexicographylist at yahoogroups.com, Andrew Dunbar
<hippytrail at g...> wrote:
> On 9/6/05, adrian_p_smith <adrian_p_smith at y...> wrote:
> > --- In lexicographylist at yahoogroups.com, Simon 
> > Wickham-Smith <wickhamsmith at g...> wrote:
> > > yo!
> > > 
> > > Re like verb to like - check out, dudes and dudettes, 
> > > the use of the verb to go in the sentence "I go all weak 
> > > at the knees when I see her".  The speaker clearly is in 
> > > no position to go anywhere, yet it's an acceptable use 
> > > of metaphorical language.  'He's going mad", too, is 
> > > another example.  We use this verb in many many 
> > > situations in which to become would be more literal.  
> > 
> > A restricted bunch of mainly negative expressions. Apart 
> > from colours, there's blind, deaf, bald, bankrupt, mad, 
> > crazy, apeshit, ballistic and a few others (I've heard 
> > 'non-linear', which was cute). Try saying "I went happy" 
> > and see how many people applaud your creativity.
> 
> As opposed to to "I became happy"?

Er...I'd probably go with "I cheered up", myself. There are indeed
blocked collocations to be found, or not found as the case may be.

-- 
Adrian Smith




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