[lit-ideas] Re: My adverb right or wrong, but right or wrong, my adverb.

  • From: "Mike Geary" <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 00:08:05 -0500

Well, maybe not so Southern.  Check this one out.
http://www.filmsite.org/shed.html




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From: "Mike Geary" <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: My adverb right or wrong, but right or wrong, my 
adverb.


> 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
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Robert Paul" <Robert.Paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 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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