Subj : Get
To   : Anton Shepelev
From : August Abolins
Date : Tue Aug 11 2020 21:45:42

On 11/08/2020 5:13 a.m., Anton Shepelev : All wrote:


 AS> The word!?! get' is so cruelly overused in English that Ambrose
 AS> Bierce, commenting on the phrase "to get married", asks the
 AS> reader why not to say "to get dead", too. I therefore try to
 AS> limit its office in my vocabulary to the immediate meaning of
 AS> taking something. One phrase, however, makes me cudgel my
 AS> brains -- "to get into a car". What literate synonyms can you
 AS> propose for it without!?! get'? How about "to board"? But I fear
 AS> it does not work for both passenger and driver. I got stuck...

English is such a hodge-podge of mixed rules and exceptions. I can empathize.

How about the terms ingress and egress?

Typically, they may refer to the ease or difficulty of getting in and out of
"something", even in traffic.  But I think you can make them work as a
substitute for your needs.

-aa-

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