[lit-ideas] Re: My adverb right or wrong, but right or wrong, my adverb.
- From: "Mike Geary" <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 23:40:36 -0500
Robert Paul:
> 'She did him wrong,' means (I think) She did wrong to him. 'She did him
> wrongly,' suggests whips and chains.
such a picayunish little point -- but, isn't it: "she done him wrong"? I
only ask because if it is, well, it makes all the difference in the world,
doesn't it? "Did" is really rather Luteran in its implications, wouldn't
you agree? Whereas "done" speaks of Southern love, i.e., uncontrollable
appetites. I don't know about "wrongly" I've never felt I've been done
wrongly.
Mike Geary
postmodern Southern gothic
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From: "Robert Paul" <Robert.Paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Monday, October 11, 2004 10:15 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] My adverb right or wrong, but right or wrong, my
adverb.
> >...I don't know whether there's a way of deciding -- or knowing --when
> "wrongly" should be used.<
> --------------------------------------
> 'Wrongly" is used before a verb, but 'wrong' is used as a post-noun (or a
> post-pronoun) modifier: 'Don't take this wrong,' 'He got the directions
> wrong.'
> Cp. 'He got the wrong (adj.)directions.'
>
> He wrongly identified it as an oak.
>
> Eventually he got it right.
>
> 'She did him wrong,' means (I think) She did wrong to him. 'She did him
> wrongly,' suggests whips and chains.
>
> The more you look at 'wrongly' the weirder it becomes.
>
> Robert Paul
> The Mutton Institute of Grammatology
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