English Syntactic Musings

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Verb + it

Examples

  • "Why don't we Tiki/Dominoes/Usdan/Sherman it." Refers to where food is to be acquired.
  • "I think I'll walk/drive/Branvan/Shuttle-bus it." Refers to mode of transportation to be used.

Comments, Hypotheses

Seems to refer to a certain means to some end. Usdan is the means of food, Branvan is the means of transportation, etc.


Sentences that parse oddly for non-obvious reasons

  • "That thing has such corrupt memory that memtest86 (which loads straight from grub) crashes and sometimes is fortunate enough to reset the computer while doing so."


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