<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">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. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">The winner in the odd category: 'up under the house'. Why not 'down'? Odd. bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Sep 16, 2021 at 8:41 PM Anton Sherwood via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On 2021-9-16 09:34, SR Ballard via extropy-chat wrote:<br>
> English has a long tradition of verb+preposition meaning<br>
> something different than simply the verb.<br>
><br>
> Example:<br>
><br>
> Break<br>
> Outbreak<br>
> Break out<br>
> Break in<br>
> Break up<br>
> Break down<br>
> Etc.<br>
><br>
> Breaking up with your boyfriend and breaking him are not even nearly<br>
> the same, and compare that to breaking in or breaking out with him?<br>
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The only preposition here is 'with'. There may be better examples but <br>
this isn't one.<br>
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> And besides that, why can’t we speak casually on an email list? Do we need to be formal and stuffy?<br>
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As I was mentioned of before, my initial sally about "comprised of" was <br>
a quick casual barb aimed at whatever magazine JG was quoted of; I only <br>
expanded on it when JG replied to that.<br>
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*\\* Anton Sherwood *\\* <a href="http://www.bendwavy.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">www.bendwavy.org</a><br>
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