tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Jun 02 12:42:02 1995
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Re: "be proud of"
On Fri, 2 Jun 1995 Mark E. Shoulson said
>I have to disagree with ghunchi'wI' and agree with charghwI'. The
>cleavage is neither the beneficiary nor recipient of pride; pride
>isn't given to things, nor do they benefit from it. The cleavage is
>the *cause* of the pride. I am proud of my cleavage means I am proud
>*due to* my cleavage.
NO, NO, and emphatically NO! My mistake was I used a definition of
proud that nobody seems to use. I use the word "proud" to mean "to
have pride." If someone is proud, they have pride in themselves. If
I am proud of my cleavage, (which I am) then I have pride for it. I
do not have pride in myself because of the cleavage There are tons of
objects one can have pride in. Ask any costumer what they have for
their outfit, they have pride. I'll admit that they are proud of the
work that went into it. But they do not have pride in themselves for
having to work so hard.
I think our problem is that MO used an adjective to make a verb.(i.e.
proud is not a verb by itself) That adjective has many definitions.
Why can't we use all of them?
r'Hul