End of ADS-L Digest - 6 Jul 1997 to 7 Jul 1997 ********************************************** Subject: ADS-L Digest - 7 Jul 1997 to 8 Jul 1997 There are 14 messages totalling 294 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. Golden Oldies (6) 2. Seeking permission to post book announcements (fwd) (2) 3. Hotlanta (2) 4. Book notices: Results 5. Golden Oldies/_Catcher in the Rye_ (2) 6. Bleach ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 8 Jul 1997 09:59:37 -0500 From: Mark Mandel Subject: Re: Golden Oldies Charles Boewe writes: >>> [...] >From the 1940s: To lay (M), to get laid (F) <<< I don't go that far back, but for me a male can "get laid" too, since the 60s or late 50s. Was that a change? It gives HIM, too, an intransitive form of "lay", while "lay" requires an explicit object. Mark A. Mandel : Senior Linguist : mark[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]dragonsys.com Dragon Systems, Inc. : speech recognition : +1 617 965-5200 320 Nevada St., Newton, MA 02160, USA : http://www.dragonsys.com/ Personal home page: http://world.std.com/~mam/