Re: She was using it transitively, not intransitively.
everynametaken Send a noteboard - 02/07/2010 12:10:59 AM
A negative experience can turn you off (in general), or it can turn you off something that you previously liked (such as a book). You seem to have assumed Camilla was using "turn off" in the former sense, when in fact it was the latter.
P.S. Only butting in because my opinion was asked. Now that I have come in like a sniper in the night and spotted the source of the misunderstanding with lightning speed, I will draw my cloak over my face and vanish into the darkness.
(Mixed metaphors ftw!)
P.S. Only butting in because my opinion was asked. Now that I have come in like a sniper in the night and spotted the source of the misunderstanding with lightning speed, I will draw my cloak over my face and vanish into the darkness.
(Mixed metaphors ftw!)
Yes, I assumed the prior. I see your point; I would say we hardly use the latter form for anything here. *shrugs*
But wine was the great assassin of both tradition and propriety...
-Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings
-Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings
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Hype usually turns me right off things
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She was using it transitively, not intransitively.
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Re: She was using it transitively, not intransitively.
- 02/07/2010 12:10:59 AM
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As a native American, the way she used the word seemed completely natural.
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There's irony in this...
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Makes me want not to read it.
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