Training up
sage
And why is it deemed necessary to add "up"?
Cheers, Sage?
R H Draney
>
>How long has the phrase "training up" been around?
>
>And why is it deemed necessary to add "up"?
Never heard it...if it means what it seems to mean, the latest equivalent in
this neck of the woods is "upskilling"....r
Steve Hayes
>How long has the phrase "training up" been around?
About 400 years or so.
>And why is it deemed necessary to add "up"?
Necessity is the mother of invention.
--
Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/7734/stevesig.htm
E-mail - see web page, or parse: shayes at dunelm full stop org full stop uk
Don Phillipson
news:_Zy1b.159$G1....@tor-nn1.netcom.ca...
> How long has the phrase "training up" been around?
> And why is it deemed necessary to add "up"?
The original environment appears to be gardening.
Training up usually means attaching a plant to an
espalier to force it to acquire a particular shape.
The word up seems needed in order to distinguish
this from other forms of training, e.g. teaching
horses and riders.
Spoken English seems to display a magnetic
attraction for very small redundant words. US
State Secretary Powell said this week: "That
would be a cliff we do not want to fall off of,"
or something like that.
--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada)
dphillipson[at]trytel.com
Robert Lieblich
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> On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 21:00:51 -0400, "sage" <sa...@netcom.ca> wrote:
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> >How long has the phrase "training up" been around?
>
> About 400 years or so.
Proverbs 22:6, KJV; that's almost 500 years
> >And why is it deemed necessary to add "up"?
That's something you should look up.
>
> Necessity is the mother of invention.
Ad if she ever catches up with the father ...
--
Bob Lieblich
Acting up
Steve Hayes
<Robert....@Verizon.net> wrote:
>Steve Hayes wrote:
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>> On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 21:00:51 -0400, "sage" <sa...@netcom.ca> wrote:
>>
>> >How long has the phrase "training up" been around?
>>
>> About 400 years or so.
>
>Proverbs 22:6, KJV; that's almost 500 years
According to my reckoning, it will be 400 years ago in 8 years' time.
But if they used that phrase then for translation, it must have been in use
and known for some time beforehand.
Robert Lieblich
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> On Sat, 23 Aug 2003 17:59:37 -0400, Robert Lieblich
> <Robert....@Verizon.net> wrote:
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> >Steve Hayes wrote:
> >>
> >> On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 21:00:51 -0400, "sage" <sa...@netcom.ca> wrote:
> >>
> >> >How long has the phrase "training up" been around?
> >>
> >> About 400 years or so.
> >
> >Proverbs 22:6, KJV; that's almost 500 years
>
> According to my reckoning, it will be 400 years ago in 8 years' time.
>
> But if they used that phrase then for translation, it must have been in use
> and known for some time beforehand.
My vorpal sword recently damaged one of my fingers and I just can't
count the way I useta.
I'd claim I was obliquely referring to Tyndale, but I don't think he
got around to Proverbs.
No, wait, it was a typo.
Hey, it's 4:30 a.m. as I write this and I can't get back to sleep.
Have some pity.
--
Bob Lieblich
Trying to snooze even as he writes
Dr Robin Bignall
<Robert....@Verizon.net> wrote:
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>Hey, it's 4:30 a.m. as I write this and I can't get back to sleep.
>Have some pity.
Why? I'm usually at it[1] about that time of a morn and I get no roses,
even for the funny bits I print to leave for Jeanne.
[1] Hint. "It" occasionally requires a printer.
--
wrmst rgrds
Robin Bignall
Quiet part of Hertfordshire
England