Re: Edict example sentences.

On 1/28/06 5:06 PM, "Bart Mathias" typed:

> Paul Blay wrote:

>> なぜそそくさと出てくるのか。 Why rush out?
>
> "Why rush out?" sounds like something you'd say to someone you think is
> going to rush out (unless this is another way British and American
> differ). If the speaker is outside, the rush-outer must have already
> done it.

It wouldn't seem strange to me if it came from the mouth of a heavily
Yiddish-influenced speaker of English. ISTM that "Why (present tense verb)?"
said to someone who has already perpetrated the verb is a commonplace in
that especially textured improvement on Standard English. BIANAJ, so I'm
talking into my hat. Why try? It's just chutzpah. I wouldn't know from
Yiddish if a slap in the frassk it gave me.

>
> I couldn't have come up with an example of そそくさと at all, though.

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