End of ADS-L Digest - 3 Oct 1995 to 4 Oct 1995

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There are 29 messages totalling 615 lines in this issue.



Topics of the day:



 1. Lexical choice? (8)

 2. Laying Out: Hookey or Tanning?

 3. green/string beans (4)

 4. icebox and upstate (3)

 5. Upstate

 6. contributing to discussions (2)

 7. Lexical choice? -Reply

 8. Re(2): Fastest word to dictionaries (was Re: Origin of 'AIDS'

 9. Hello (3)

 10. pronunciation note

 11. Another Lexical Item (3)

 12. Gold Wave



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Date:  Thu, 5 Oct 1995 05:05:34 -0500

From:  Natalie Maynor <maynor[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]RA.MSSTATE.EDU>

Subject: Re: Lexical choice?



> For me, it's 'do the laundry.' Out of curiosity, Natalie, what would you

> say if you had sheets, towels etc to wash ,as well?



I would still say "wash clothes" -- unless I had some reason to specify

the specific nature of what I was washing. I might, for example, say

something like "Now that all my houseguests have finally left, I have

to wash a ton of sheets and towels." But I would normally just say "I

have to wash clothes." Sort of like I might specify for some reason that

I'm about to go get a Pepsi, although I normally would just say "a coke."

  --Natalie (maynor[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ra.msstate.edu)



P.S. Am I the only one here who says "wash clothes" instead of "to the

laundry/wash/whatever"?? I have never thought of this as an idiolectal

habit. I thought it was "normal."