Date: Sun, 25 Jan 1998 14:49:47 -0500

From: Gerald Cohen gcohen[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]UMR.EDU

Subject: syntactic blends



For subscribers interested in syntactic blends, here are two I noticed

in recent newspaper items:



1) '"Everybody's sitting back and waiting to see where it's all going to

pan out".'---blended from "...where it's all going to lead" and "whether

it's all going to pan out." -- (in _Wall Street Journal_, January 7, 1998,

Sec. B., p.1/3. article title: "HDTV Sets Too Pricey, Too Late?")



2) '"That's the how you got along".'---blended from "That's how you got

along" and "That's the way you got along." --spoken by Monica Lewinsky in a

taped conversation with Linda Tripp. The context as presented in the

newspaper is (with three dots and "sic" in the article): 'LEWINSKY: "I was

brought up with lies all the time...that's the (sic) how you got along...I

have lied my entire life".'--- (in _St. Louis Post-Dispatch_, January 25,

1998, Sec. A. p.7/5-7; article title: "White House Sex Allegations:

Excerpts of the Tapes.")



--Gerald Cohen



gcohen[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]umr.edu