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  • From: James Read <J.Read-2 AT sms.ed.ac.uk>
  • To: David Kummerow <farmerjoeblo AT hotmail.com>
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] b-hebrew Uncancellable meaning and Hebrew verbs
  • Date: Sat, 04 Jul 2009 16:08:08 +0100

Hi David,

I don't know which variant dialect of English you are using but the following sentence doesn't make much sense to me (other than comic value).

James Christian

Quoting David Kummerow <farmerjoeblo AT hotmail.com>:


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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