One might introduce the fairly simple notion of idiom - a phrase whose
meaning and use is not directly deducible from the literal meaning of the
words involved. And one could throw in examples of other idioms while one
is at it. (Easy to find many lists of popular idioms on the Net)
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On Sun, Nov 12, 2017 at 11:37 AM, adriano paolo shaul gershom palma <
palmaadriano@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
one may try to pint out that the endless junk produced by the Swiss style
of linguistic in the 19th century (made known by l d Saussure & Cie) is
junk and there is no contrastive structure to what the idiots call meaning.
That is the case with 'give' and 'take', viz. taking a vacation vs. giving
a vacation.
the student may enjoy the puzzling condition of translating
"I'll put you up and I won't put up with you", as applied to 'put'
palma, apgs
On Sun, Nov 12, 2017 at 10:45 AM, John McCreery <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
A friend who sometimes teaches English in Japan asks the following deeply
philosophical question:
How do you explain to a student that “giving a shit” is not the opposite
of “taking a shit”?
John
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