[b-hebrew] b-hebrew Uncancellable meaning and Hebrew verbs
David Kummerow
farmerjoeblo at hotmail.com
Fri Jul 3 22:21:16 EDT 2009
Hi James,
I've thought about this a little more and even the fastest action
possible for a given animal may sometimes be acceptably referred to with
"plod". Eg:
(1) The horse was plodding at a gallop.
In this example, the horse will be moving at maximum speed. "Plodding"
refers to the sound of the movement, not the speed of the movement.
Regards,
David Kummerow.
> Hi James,
>
>> Hi David,
>>
>> I believe this has already been demonstrated to you. It's all a case
>> of relativity. If we say somebody runs quickly we expect their run
>> pace to be above average run pace. When we imagine somebody plodding
>> quickly we expect the plod pace to be quicker than average but still
>> somewhat slower than average walking pace. Your use of the word
>> 'quickly' does not mean that the person was moving quickly. It just
>> means that their plod pace was quicker than average.
>
> James, I've already told you that the use in Australian English has no
> contextual relativity implied. Sure, "plod" has been chosen because the
> meaning of the word is suitable to designate "walking" vis-a-vis
> "running". But the use I'm referring to can also be used of running.
> Probably not sprinting, but running would be acceptable. The use has to
> with heaviness or sound, not slowness. And like I already stated, it is
> quite difficult to see how "slow" is the pure uncancellable semantics of
> the word in any case -- as if "plod" means "slow". It does not. It means
> "laborious walking" or "doing action indicated by adjunct phrase slowly"
> or "heavy walking".
>
> Regards,
> David Kummerow.
>
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