Date:  Fri, 7 Nov 1997 14:20:09 -0500
From:  Ron Butters <RonButters[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]AOL.COM>
Subject: Fwd: Re:    Re: good travel

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Subj:  Re:    Re: good travel
Date:  97-11-07 11:05:43 EST
From:  RonButters
To:   M_Lynne_Murphy[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]baylor.edu

Lynne writes:

>i don't believe any native speaker of
>american english would say this
.["Have a good travel!"]
>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.

I agree that a native speaker would recognize this as a deviant utterance. At
the same time, this sort of extension of popular phrases (cf. "Have a
nice/good day!" "Have a good/nice trip!" etc.)" is commonplace. Speakers
commonly create deviant expressions in an attempt to be colorful and clever.
In other words, a speaker might have said this, but in doing so he or she
would have assumed tht both the speaker and the hearer were aware that it was
a nonce extension.