Re: USAGE: "I want crazy two years ago"

Sai Emrys <sai@...> wrote:
>
> Sorry for confusion - the statement whose
> weirdness I was intending to refer to was the
> reply, "What sort of crazy did you go?"

Not so weird when you consider "go" as meaning
"become":

"I went crazy."  =  "I became crazy."

"What sort of crazy  did you go?"
    =  "What sort of crazy did you become?"

--Ph. D.

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