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minus-squareIllecors@lemmy.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 days agoI’m no native englisher, but doesn’t “hanging” here imply “having been hanged” rather than, what I suspect was intended - “hanging out”?
minus-squareMiddleAgesModem@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·5 days agoyup. saying “we’ll get together and hang” doesn’t usually mean a meeting at the gallows.
minus-squarercbrk@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 days agoAmerican dialects often omit the “out” for the same meaning.
I’m no native englisher, but doesn’t “hanging” here imply “having been hanged” rather than, what I suspect was intended - “hanging out”?
yup. saying “we’ll get together and hang” doesn’t usually mean a meeting at the gallows.
American dialects often omit the “out” for the same meaning.