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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Re: "Going off" beck123 #191055 05/12/2010 4:29 AM Joined: Jan 2008 Posts: 132 goofy member goofy member Joined: Jan 2008 Posts: 132 Originally Posted By: beck123 I might be completely wrong about whence these sloppy (and often incomprehensible) expressions came - hopefully one of our linguists will add to this thread, because I've always been curious about this myself. It's a feature of Germanic languages; German does it too. Wait... incomprehensible? What's incomprehensible about go off, burn up, burn down? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted "Going off" Goodspeaker 03/15/2010 6:26 PM Re: "Going off" BranShea 03/15/2010 6:58 PM Re: "Going off" Tromboniator 05/11/2010 7:37 AM Re: "Going off" LukeJavan8 05/11/2010 3:29 PM Re: "Going off" doc_comfort 05/12/2010 2:19 AM Re: "Going off" beck123 05/12/2010 2:39 AM Re: "Going off" goofy 05/12/2010 4:29 AM Re: "Going off" Tromboniator 05/12/2010 4:43 AM Re: "Going off" zmjezhd 05/12/2010 1:44 PM Re: "Going off" BranShea 05/12/2010 6:43 PM Re: "Going off" beck123 05/13/2010 3:40 AM Re: "Going off" beck123 05/13/2010 4:03 AM Re: "Going off" BranShea 05/13/2010 9:21 AM Re: "Going off" zmjezhd 05/13/2010 12:25 PM Re: "Going off" BranShea 05/13/2010 12:37 PM Re: "Going off" zmjezhd 05/13/2010 12:52 PM Re: "Going off" goofy 05/13/2010 12:55 PM Re: "Going off" tsuwm 05/13/2010 3:48 PM Re: "Going off" Buffalo Shrdlu 05/13/2010 5:06 PM Re: Recency Illusion Jackie 05/14/2010 2:00 AM Re: "Going off" Faldage 05/14/2010 2:09 AM Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Flat Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary

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