[ExI] comprisition, was: New Bioscience Company Raises $15 Million to Revive Woolly Mammoth

[William Flynn Wallace]

I once kept a list of words that had 'up' added to it.  Pages and pages
before I finally quit. Many of them made no sense at all.  The house burned
down - the people burned up.

The winner in the odd category:  'up under the house'.  Why not 'down'?
Odd.   bill w

On Thu, Sep 16, 2021 at 8:41 PM Anton Sherwood via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On 2021-9-16 09:34, SR Ballard via extropy-chat wrote:
>  > English has a long tradition of verb+preposition meaning
>  > something different than simply the verb.
>  >
>  > Example:
>  >
>  > Break
>  > Outbreak
>  > Break out
>  > Break in
>  > Break up
>  > Break down
>  > Etc.
>  >
>  > Breaking up with your boyfriend and breaking him are not even nearly
>  > the same, and compare that to breaking in or breaking out with him?
>
> The only preposition here is 'with'.  There may be better examples but
> this isn't one.
>
>
> > And besides that, why can’t we speak casually on an email list? Do we
> need to be formal and stuffy?
>
> As I was mentioned of before, my initial sally about "comprised of" was
> a quick casual barb aimed at whatever magazine JG was quoted of; I only
> expanded on it when JG replied to that.
>
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