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<br>There is one message totalling 31 lines in this issue.
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<br>Topics of the day:
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<br>  1. more on 'grow'
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<br>Date:    Sat, 27 Jun 1998 10:27:46 -0400
<br>From:    "Bethany K. Dumas" <dumasb[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]UTK.EDU>
<br>Subject: more on 'grow'
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<br>Apparently, some native speakers of AmEng do not think there is any
<br>semantic ambiguity in the tr. v. 'grow' when it is used with non-agri
<br>objects. I continue to think that there is. Consider a sentence I read in
<br>today's Knoxville News-Sentinel:
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<br>> It plans to add some technical employees in the Knoxville office, but
<br>> the firm is not interested in growing a large employee base.
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<br>The sense appears to be that the co. is not interested in increasing its
<br>number of employees. And the sentence seems to emphasize the lack of
<br>interest in a new entity -- "a large amployee base" -- not a lack of
<br>interest in increasing the size of its present employee base.
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<br>Am I making sense?
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<br>In other words, when we "grow the economy," we seem to "increase the size
<br>of" the economy or "improve the economy." There is no sense of "improve"
<br>in the above example, I think.
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<br>???
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<br>Bethany
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