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>From: minsky@media.mit.edu (Marvin Minsky)
Subject: missing verbs (was: Biological Sex Differences...)
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In article <1992Sep9.162211.11503@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com> bhv@areaplg2.corp.mot.com (Bronis Vidugiris) writes:

>)
>)I'd disagree.  It depends upon what is being spoken:
>)
>)I lost.
>)I lost the game.
>)I biffed it.
>)I ate it.
>)I bit it.
>)I spooged.
>)I fucked up.
>)I bought the farm.

Umm, no.  The problem was to replace phrases like "A defeated B" by a
homologous phrase with the same meaning, like "B <verbed> A", where A
and B are of equivalent status.  Really, half of the verbs seem to be
missing, in this sense.  It is really hard to say that <Jack verbed
Jim> in a case in which we regard Jack as coming out the worse for the
event. 


