Date: Wed, 11 Oct 1995 08:28:37 -0400
From: Seth Sklarey crissiet[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]IPOF.FLA.NET
Subject: Re: go up to
This has probably reached "mootdom," but "up" in the sense of "go up to the
door" to me would mean "right up to."
"Walk up the street," however would be going north, up a slope, or walking
towards a position that the speaker is psychologically identifying with.
yoroshiku
Benjamin Barrett
The reason you go "up a walk" to a house is that if you didn't, the yard
and the house would flood every time it rained. We're talking common sense
here, not dialect.
Seth Sklarey
Wittgenstein School of the Unwritten Word
Coconut Grove, FL