Date:  Wed, 11 Oct 1995 09:40:41 -0400

From:  Wayne Glowka <wglowka[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MAIL.GAC.PEACHNET.EDU>

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



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Wayne Glowka

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Georgia College

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