Re: THEORY: more questions

Roger Mills wrote:
> > That gives me the strange notion of someone giving me to some inanimate
> > object, or maybe feeding me to some monster.  :-)
> >
> Right, that would be the correct reading if a heavy stress were on _me_ --
> "Give it _me_!"  as opposed to "Don't give it that sweet little baby!"--
> speaker is being nobly self-sacrificial and altruistic.  :-)))
Regardless of where the stress is, that's the image that comes to mind.
I suppose if I heard that, I would understand what was meant.  Still, it
sounds extremely bizarre.  I'd probably assume the speaker had actually
said "Give it to me", and that I simply hadn't heard the "to".

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