Mark Spahn writes: > (1) "The Uninsured Motorist clause on your auto insurance > may pay if you're hit & runned while bicycling." > Interesting form of the transitive verb "to hit-and-run (someone)". > Kind of like the baseball term "to fly out", neaning to > score an "out" by means of a fly ball. I think people > say "He flied out", not "He flew out" (??????????).
I agree about "He flied out." And for a hit-and-run situation, I would expect a construction like "Hit (someone) and ran" on the active side, and "was hit and left (whether for dead, with his/her feelings hurt, educated, or merely bemused)" on the passive side. Were guns runned by Arthur Rimbaud, by the way? I think not (as Descartes said before vanishing). They were run, weren't they? Jerome --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Persons posting messages to not_honyaku assume all responsibility for their messages. The list owner does not review messages prior to posting, and accepts no responsibility for the content of messages posted. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
