Subject: Re: "Down" is NOT Necessarily "South" (was: 10/27 episode)
From: lefty@twg.com ("Lefty")
Date: 1990-11-05, 14:46
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <110351@uunet.UU.NET> rbj@uunet.UU.NET (Root Boy Jim Cottrell) 
writes:
> > In article <JYM.90Oct30213243@remarque.berkeley.edu> 
jym@remarque.berkeley.edu (Jym Dyer) writes:
>>> > >> Lucy says she is going "down" to Tacoma.  If TP is in the NE
>>> > >> corner of Washington then I think she would say:  going "over"
>>> > >> to Tacoma. . . . Seems like a writer's fax paux to me.
>> > >|S|eems like a viewer's over-obsessiveness to me.  "Down" can
>> > >`-' mean just about any which way.  Maine is "down east,"
>> > >    after all.
> > 
> > One can say anything they like. That doesn't make it correct.
> > I live in DC. I can go up to Baltimore or down to Richmond, but
> > not vice versa. I can also go over to Annapolis. I can go out
> > to Leesburg, which is in the country.
> > 
> > One can also go down in elevation, even tho one is traveling north.
> > Ditto for downtown, and by corollary, uptown could be south.
> > 
> > While I would not charge the writer with a faux pas, it does
> > bother me in general conversation when people mix up/down without
> > even the slightest regard for minimal exactitude.

Write your Congressman.

Sheesh!



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