Re: (In)flammable (WAS: Early Conlang Archives)

Dan Sulani wrote:

> The situation is simplified in colloquial use:  as a metaphor for anger, one
> uses "burn up" but not (to my knowledge, anyway)
> "burn down".  As in:  That really burns me up!  (= that really makes me angry).
> But not *That really burns me down.
I think because "burn down" is usually applied to buildings, and people are
not, metaphorically, buildings.

--
John Cowan      http://www.ccil.org/~cowan              cowan@ccil.org
        You tollerday donsk?  N.  You tolkatiff scowegian?  Nn.
        You spigotty anglease?  Nnn.  You phonio saxo?  Nnnn.
                Clear all so!  'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)