Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!whuxle!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!ittvax!ittral!pellegri From: pellegri@ittral.UUCP (Dan Pellegrino) Newsgroups: net.veg Subject: Re: Did you see it too? Message-ID: <365@ittral.UUCP> Date: Wed, 15-Feb-84 10:10:18 EST Article-I.D.: ittral.365 Posted: Wed Feb 15 10:10:18 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 18-Feb-84 00:53:41 EST References: <334@ittral.UUCP> hp-dcde.40400008 Lines: 16 In Article 107 of this newsgroup some truly fine examples of items that scream were cited in order to demonstrate the meaning of the word 'scream' as stated in Definition 3 in Webster's (which is: to produce a vivid startling effect). These examples are all valid but certainly not to the exclusion of the plant's action that is described in the article entitled "Did you see it too?". The verb transitive described in Webster's should not be ignored (~vt : to utter with or as if with a scream). The plant in question definately did "utter with a scream" or at least, if you won't accept the application of Definition 3, did "utter as if with a scream". I say that the plant screamed. Dan Pellegrino ittvax!ittral!pellegri P.S. - I already looked-up 'utter'. It can be used in this context.