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Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Not Delaware - hurray!
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Went Missing
Whenever I see this, I cringe. Is this grammatically correct? If not, what is the right way to say someone's location is currently unknown?
Did the news outlets always state it this way and I've only recently noticed?
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06-21-2005, 04:29 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: CT via PA via CA via PA
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It's better than "He/she was found missing..."
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06-21-2005, 04:33 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Minneapolis
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gone missing? disappeared?
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06-21-2005, 04:36 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Springfield, USA
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became no longer among the found?
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06-21-2005, 04:40 PM
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This guy has posted so much, his fingers are about to fall off.
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: In Absentia
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That would have to be has or had gone missing, though. I'm not sure how you say, "he went missing" without the went.
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06-21-2005, 04:42 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Minneapolis
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What about "He done gone missing"... no good? I'll just settle for "He disappeared" then |
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06-21-2005, 04:43 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Conyers GA
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He became missed.
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06-21-2005, 04:44 PM
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This guy has posted so much, his fingers are about to fall off.
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: In Absentia
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He missed supper.
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06-21-2005, 04:46 PM
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Coordinator
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Conyers GA
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He achieved non-locatedness.
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06-21-2005, 04:58 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Behind Enemy Lines in Athens, GA
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Became geographically challenged?
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06-21-2005, 05:00 PM
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Dearly Missed
(9/25/77-12/23/08) Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: DC Suburbs
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Eventhough he cashed his $2.50 check, he was absent for his immediate ass pounding?
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06-21-2005, 05:03 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Behind Enemy Lines in Athens, GA
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http://www.billingsgazette.com/index...citylights.inc
One reader asked me to scold people who use the phrase "went missing." Sorry. I have to admit that I don't really mind it. It has a folksy feel to it, and it does at least make some sense, unlike the phrase, "turned up missing." How about if we scrap both and all agree to use "done got lost"? Aside from that one columnist, most everything else I find relating to this recent development indicates that it is an adoption of a British colloquialism.
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06-21-2005, 05:06 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Annapolis, Md
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I think it has essentially become an idiom, and therefore immune to traditional grammatical analysis.
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