Re: USAGE: 'born'

On Tue, 8 May 2001 Muke Tever wrote:
(in reply to this comment of mine:)
> > And what does a baby do during childbirth -- other than
> > get expelled from the womb along with the afterbirth?
>
> It comes into the outside world, is what it does.  English "to be
> born" doesn't come baggaged with gynaecological detail;
there's no reason an active verb meaning the same should have to.
The basic meaning 'be born' easily takes everyday extensions
(and this is rather what I'm trying to get at..).
>
Good point.  And the same would be true of an active verb
for "to come into the outside world as (or as if) an afterbirth"
(whatever that metaphor might mean).  --Tommie