Small talking with a random fellow the other night, I told him that I know his street and neighborhood by walking through it every so often. He asked me, "So what do you walk?" When I looked at him quizzically, he continued with his query. "What kind of DOG do you walk?"
Conversation continues...he says that I can identify him on the street by the fact that he'll be walking a golden lab, and his wife has red hair. He remains nameless; obviously, it doesn't matter.
Ah yes, the hazards of a verb that can be both transitive and intransitive:
ReplyDelete"I walk through the neighborhood" (intr.)
versus
"I walk a dog through the neighborhood" (tr.)
Amazing how such a simple word can lead to a failure to communicate.