Re: NATLANG: Dutch (jara: Has anyone made a real conlang?)

Elliott Lash wrote:

> --- John Cowan <cowan@...> wrote:>
> >         I dare do all that may become a man;
> >         Who dares do more, is none.
> >
> > This is pure modal use; "become" = "be appropriate
> > to", now lost except
> > in the adjective "becoming" = "fitting, appropriate;
> > attractive, beautiful".
> > I had occasion to quote this yesterday.
> >
>
> Well....I could also say:  "X does not become you"
>
> ...but not in the affirmative: *"X becomes you"
>
But you (i.e. "one") can:
 "Moonlight becomes you" (a song, 30s/40s vintage)
 "Death Becomes Her" (movie, more recent)

But it's probably to be classed as obsolete or
literary/affected/fashionista- or decorator-speak...... We had a go-round on
this sense of "become/becoming" a year or so back, as some will recall.