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Re: Two Questions
From:
DD Farms <[log in to unmask]>
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Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Tue, 26 Sep 2006 12:24:53 -0500
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At 09:08 PM 9/25/2006, Paul E. Doniger wrote:". . .
>    * Went missing" doesn't thrill me either, but I suspect it's an 
> unstoppable change. What's wrong with "disappeared?"
DD: From a Military or Cop view, it means going from one official 
status to another. He was present for duty, he changed status to 
absent without leave. = He went AWOL.

Cop talk; the subject was not on our missing persons list, now 
is.  He went missing. 

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