[NIFL-ESL:10327] Re: FW: [rsct] Word games with 'up'

kentodd@UDel.Edu

Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 13:03:20 -0400 (EDT)
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Pretty much change between two states carried to completion or movement
along a continuum towrds its "upper" or positive end, but not
necessarily to the end point/completion. At a guess.

Elsa Auerbach wrote:
> 
> What's up with this little word "up"?
> 
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> From: Raging Grannie (Wanda Ballentine) <wsb2001@adelphia.net>
> Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 20:55:10 -0400
> To: <rscriticalteach@lists.execpc.com>
> Subject: [rsct] Word games with 'up'
> 
> Ever stop to think about UP?
> 
> There is a two-letter word that perhaps has more meaning than any other
> two-letter word, and that is "UP."
> 
> It's easy to understand UP, meaning toward the sky or at the top of the
> list, but when we waken in the morning, why do we wake UP?
> 
> At a meeting, why does a topic come UP? Why do we speak UP and why are the
> officers UP for election and why is it UP to the secretary to write UP a
> report?
> 
> We call UP our friends And we use it to brighten UP a room, polish UP the
> silver, we warm UP the leftovers and clean UP the kitchen. We lock UP the
> house and some guys fix UP the old car.
> 
> At other times the little word has real special meaning. People stir UP
> trouble, line UP for tickets, work UP an appetite, and think UP excuses.
> 
> To be dressed is one thing but to be dressed UP is special.
> 
> And this UP is confusing:
> 
> A drain must be opened UP because it is stopped UP.
> 
> We open UP a store in the morning but we close it UP at night.
> 
> We seem to be pretty mixed UP about UP!
> 
> To be knowledgeable of the proper uses of UP, look UP the word in the
> dictionary. In a desk size dictionary, takes UP almost 1/4th the page and
> definitions add UP to about thirty.
> 
> If you are UP to it, you might try building UP a list of the many ways UP is
> used. It will take UP a lot of your time, but if you don't give UP, you may
> wind UP with a hundred or more.
> 
> When it threatens to rain, we say it is clouding UP. When the sun comes out
> we say it is clearing UP.
> 
> When it rains, it wets UP the earth. When it doesn't rain for awhile, things
> dry UP.
> 
> One could go on and on, but I'll wrap it UP,
> for now my time is UP, so.............
> 
> I'll shut UP.....!
> 
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