Date: Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:44:15 +0000

From: Lynne Murphy M_Lynne_Murphy[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]BAYLOR.EDU

Subject: Re: good travel



Kusujiro Miyoshi wrote:



I'm teaching English at Junior College in Japan. Quite recently

one of my students said that she heard an American lady said "have

a good travel" in the sense that "spend as much time as possible for

traveling." Is this common among the Americans? I myself have

thought this expression just means "have a pleasant travel without

any accident."





i don't believe any native speaker of american english would say this.

she probably said "have a good trip" or "have a good vacation" or

something like that, since "travel" is not a count noun. i would

interpret "good" here as meaning "pleasant", but sometimes "pleasant"

means "long", when you're talking about traveling.



lynne

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M. Lynne Murphy

Assistant Professor in Linguistics

Department of English

Baylor University

PO Box 97404

Waco, TX 76798