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Trying to be too clever
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s_allard
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29 October 2013 at 8:17pm | IP Logged

montmorency wrote:

beano wrote:

That's before we, er, get to the more idiomatic usage such as "get away
with it" or "get it up and running"

The word "up" also seems to have a powerful effect when appended to common verbs.

There's a joke there somewhere, but I'm too mindful of this being a family-oriented forum
to over-emphasise it. :-)

I think I finally got it.
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29 October 2013 at 9:26pm | IP Logged

s_allard wrote:

I have just attended an international conference on multilingualism and neuroscience at a local university. This was full of heady academic language of course.

Definitely right up my alley.
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