End of ADS-L Digest - 14 Mar 1995 to 15 Mar 1995

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There are 10 messages totalling 200 lines in this issue.



Topics of the day:



 1. verb-avoidance

 2. language and society text

 3. Interest in expletives? (2)

 4. suite /sut/ and /kup/

 5. Jesus H. Christ

 6. Panel on DARE at ADS meeting

 7. /kup/'s in Detroit (2)

 8. French coupe'



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Date:  Thu, 16 Mar 1995 00:13:49 -0800

From:  Anton Sherwood <dasher[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]NETCOM.COM>

Subject: verb-avoidance



> This is a vaguely historical query--when did people starting saying

> and (especially) writing "make use of" instead of "use"? If anyone

> has any ideas about why this happened, that would be great, but I'm

> mostly just wondering about when.



Perhaps it came in the same invasion as a lot of other verb-avoidance

devices in legalese -- "file an application" for "apply", bla bla bla.



About twenty years ago I read a lament that verbs were similarly

disappearing in French, being replaced by `faire' constructions.



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