Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site opus.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!wjh12!talcott!harvard!seismo!hao!cires!nbires!opus!rcd From: rcd@opus.UUCP Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Re: 'enry 'iggins in America Message-ID: <994@opus.UUCP> Date: Wed, 19-Dec-84 03:38:38 EST Article-I.D.: opus.994 Posted: Wed Dec 19 03:38:38 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 22-Dec-84 01:46:02 EST References: <598@asgb.UUCP>, <4799@fortune.UUCP> <2444@pur-ee.UUCP> Organization: NBI,Inc, Boulder CO Lines: 10 > Occaisionally I will ask someone to "reach me the x" instead of "hand me > the x" and get some strange looks, too. But, that one is probably more > widespread. True, and it has cousins of various sorts. It's a sort of jumbling that gives the wrong verb with respect to the subject, object, and indirect object of the sentence. Another common example is "borrow me some money". -- Dick Dunn {hao,ucbvax,allegra}!nbires!rcd (303)444-5710 x3086 ...Nothing left to do but smile, smile, smile.