Date:  Sat, 8 Nov 1997 09:18:46 +0900
From:  Daniel Long <dlong[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]JOHO.OSAKA-SHOIN.AC.JP>
Subject: Re: good travel

I agree completely with what Ron and Lynne have said. Remember phrases
like "Have a good one" which must have sounded strange at first but has
become accepted as a set expression.

Danny Long

Ron Butters wrote:
> Lynne writes:
>
> >i don't believe any native speaker of
> >american english would say this
> .["Have a good travel!"]
> >she probably said "have a good trip"
> >or "have a good vacation" or
> >something like that, since "travel"
> >is not a count noun. i would
> >interpret "good" here as meaning
> >"pleasant", but sometimes "pleasant"
> >means "long", when you're talking
> >about traveling.
>
> I agree that a native speaker would recognize this as a deviant utterance. At
> the same time, this sort of extension of popular phrases (cf. "Have a
> nice/good day!" "Have a good/nice trip!" etc.)" is commonplace. Speakers
> commonly create deviant expressions in an attempt to be colorful and clever.
> In other words, a speaker might have said this, but in doing so he or she
> would have assumed tht both the speaker and the hearer were aware that it was
> a nonce extension.

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