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