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- From: paul.burnett@pcs.sj.ca.us (Paul Burnett)
- Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
- Subject: What's cooking?
- Message-ID: <856.18.uupcb@pcs.sj.ca.us>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 08:10:00 GMT
- Distribution: world
- Organization: PCS-BBS - San Jose, CA - 408-270-4085
- Reply-To: paul.burnett@pcs.sj.ca.us (Paul Burnett)
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- TO: jyw@phys.psu.edu (Jin-Yuan Wu)
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- JW>(1) Not all the Italian masterpieces are hanging in museums.
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- JW>(2) So come see what's cooking at Applebee's Festa Italiana.
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- JW>English is not my native language. I asked some American and English guys
- >and they told me that these two sentances are acceptable. Could any one
- >tell me why they are accepted grammartically? I thought they should be:
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- JW>(1) Not all ... are HUNG in museums.
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- JW>(2) So come see WHO'S cooking ...
- >or So come see what's cooked ...
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- Well, HUNG has several meanings (whereas "well hung" is pretty specific,
- but not germane to _this_ conversation...).
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- Would you agree that the paintings are currently HANGING in the museums?
- At various times in the past they were HUNG in the museums, but it is
- less passive to assert they are currently hanging.
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- "What's cooking" is a code phrase for "what's happening" sometimes -
- it's a play on words. "Who's cooking" vaguely implies cannibals may be
- at work.... <G>
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