[Gllug] LinuxDoc / DocBook Documentation Writting

[Tom Schutzer-Weissmann]

On Thu, 2006-09-14 at 12:32 +0100, Tom Schutzer-Weissmann wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-09-14 at 09:40 +0100, John G Walker wrote:
> 
> > > e.g. try feeding in the grossly incorrect sentence
> > > 
> > >   She's going to London and talk on global warming
> > 
> > This is perfectly correct colloquial English, where to "go and do
> > something"  means to "go to do something". I bet you use the
> > construction all the time in your everyday conversation.
> 
> Yes, when I'm telling someone to go and do something, not when I'm
> describing their future plans.
> 
> Surely "She's going and catching the plane" doesn't mean "she's going to
> catch the plane"; the first sentence means she's doing it now and the
> second means she'll be doing it in the future.

The more I think about it the less sure I am. Anyway, "catching a plane"
is a wierd collocation.

"She's going to London and talking on global warming"? 

(He's going to London and talking gobbledegook)
Tom


		
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