Re: SURVEY: Idiomatic Expressions In Your ConLang Or ConCulture

On Nov 13, 2005, at 6:30 PM, Ph.D. wrote:
 > "I will try and attend the meeting."
>
> Here, "and" doesn't quite make sense. The expected word
> would be "to."  (To me, the use of "and" implies "I will try the
> meeting and I will attend the meeting.")
> --Ph. D.

In my experience, or maybe just in my own idiolect, "try and" has a
greater degree of certainty than "try to".  As in, if i say i'll 'try
TO' do something there's a possibility that it won't happen, but if i
say i'll 'try AND' do something i'm saying that there's very little
chance that it won't happen.


-Stephen (Steg)
  "Dime ladino d'ande venes
   ke te kero konoser
   Dime si futuro tenes
   Yo te vo a defender."
      ~ de un artikolo en el listserv Ladinokomunita

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