Joe wrote:
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Tristan McLeay" <kesuari@...>
>To: <CONLANG@...>
>Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 7:19 PM
>Subject: Re: lexicon
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>>JS Bangs wrote:
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>>>How about the distinction between "sell" and "vend"?
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>>Vending machines vend, people sell :)
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>I've never actually heard 'vend' used as a verb. Maybe I just don't get out
>enough...
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Nah, I only sometimes use it as a jocular backformation of 'vending
machine'.
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Tristan <kesuari@...>