On 6/25/07 8:47 AM, David in Ballarat wrote:
In Australia a button is sewn "on" :)
And also in Indiana. But I can see sewing a button down if
it has been shifting around. Even though I hang out with SF
authors (rec.arts.sf.composition), I'm having a hard time
coming up with a scenario. I thought of sewing down things
that might walk away with visitors to an exhibit, but
buttons would be sewn *onto* something -- then that
something would be sewn/nailed down.
I once had lunch with an Argentinian who remarked that
Americans seem to be embarrassed by naked verbs and dress
them in adverbs. I've deleted a lot of adverbs since then
-- but on inspection, most of the adverbs I use change the
meaning of the verb -- "check it" is "verify your
addition"; "check it out" is "find out whether you like it".
In a different context, "check it" means "make sure it's on
the shelf" and "check it out" means "take it home to read".
There's a great deal of difference between hanging my
clothes up and hanging them out. And, using "hang" as an
intransitive, there are *BIG* differences among hanging,
hanging out, and hanging on. And a subtle difference
between hanging on and hanging in. "Hanging on" seems, in
some contexts, to be intermediate between "hanging out" and
"hanging in".
--
Joy Beeson
http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/
http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/
http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange
http://www.timeswrsw.com/craig/cam/ (local weather)
west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A.
where we got half an inch of rain -- and the grass is still
dry. But my sister reports that the beans and corn have
uncurled. I didn't know beans *could* curl -- she says she
hadn't either. (Maybe it's a new drought-resistant variety?)
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