Date:  Wed, 11 Oct 1995 12:07:46 -0400

From:  Benjamin Barrett <Gogaku[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]GNN.COM>

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



I have to disagree. Walking up to a person means to draw near, not to

prevent oneself from being drownded by a rainstorm. Similarly, I would say

that Gilligan is "going up to the door to Ginger's hut" even though they

didn't have any steps at all.



yoroshiku

Benjamin Barrett