resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoNY Times’ David Brooks Said There’s Too Much Focus on Jeffrey Epstein. Here He Is Hanging With Epstein.theintercept.comexternal-linkmessage-square58fedilinkarrow-up1665arrow-down113file-textcross-posted to: usa@lemmy.mlusa@midwest.social
arrow-up1652arrow-down1external-linkNY Times’ David Brooks Said There’s Too Much Focus on Jeffrey Epstein. Here He Is Hanging With Epstein.theintercept.comresipsaloquitur@lemmy.world to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square58fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: usa@lemmy.mlusa@midwest.social
minus-squareIllecors@lemmy.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 day agoI’m no native englisher, but doesn’t “hanging” here imply “having been hanged” rather than, what I suspect was intended - “hanging out”?
minus-squareMiddleAgesModem@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·21 hours agoyup. saying “we’ll get together and hang” doesn’t usually mean a meeting at the gallows.
minus-squarercbrk@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·21 hours agoAmerican dialects often omit the “out” for the same meaning.
I’m no native englisher, but doesn’t “hanging” here imply “having been hanged” rather than, what I suspect was intended - “hanging out”?
yup. saying “we’ll get together and hang” doesn’t usually mean a meeting at the gallows.
American dialects often omit the “out” for the same meaning.