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Discussion Groups / English Usage / January 2007Made answer
Hello: Is "to make answer" a poetical and/or perhaps obsolete verb? --- Expiringly, a sound-track super-dove cooed "Oo-ooh"; and vibrating only thirty-two times a second, a deeper than African bass made answer: "Aa-aah." "Ooh-ah! Ooh-ah!" the stereoscopic lips came together again, and once more the facial erogenous zones of the six thousand spectators in the Alhambra tingled with almost intolerable galvanic pleasure. "Ooh ..." A Brave New World - by Aldous Huxley, p. 154 http://www.readprint.com/chapter-5923/Aldous-Huxley ---- Thanks. Marius Hancu >Hello: > [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] >http://www.readprint.com/chapter-5923/Aldous-Huxley >---- Drop the "to". It isn't there. "Made answer" is used here to say that one bird answered another bird's call. I wouldn't say it's either obsolete or current. It's just a form that isn't used frequently.  SignatureTony Cooper Orlando, FL >>Hello: >> [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] >either obsolete or current. It's just a form that isn't used >frequently. On re-reading, it isn't birds. It's one musical instrument answering another's "call". SignatureTony Cooper Orlando, FL > I wouldn't say it's > either obsolete or current. It's just a form that isn't used > frequently. OK. Thanks. Marius Hancu > > I wouldn't say it's > > either obsolete or current. It's just a form that isn't used > > frequently.OK. > > Thanks. > Marius Hancu The second whatever-it-is didn't actually answer, because there are no words involved. "[A]nswered" is more likely now, and would have been okay then, but Huxley was being precise in his language and used "made answer" for "responded." Cece > The second whatever-it-is didn't actually answer, because there are no > words involved. "[A]nswered" is more likely now, and would have been > okay then, but Huxley was being precise in his language and used "made > answer" for "responded." Thank you. However, somehow I think this is more a instance of a Biblical speak being consciously used by Huxley, similar to these: ------ 2:8, The king made answer and said, I am certain that you are attempting to get more ... 2:15, He made answer and said to Arioch, O captain of the king, ... http://bible.ccim.org/cgi-user//bible/ob? version=bbe&book=dan&chapter=3 ------ Thank you. Marius Hancu > > The second whatever-it-is didn't actually answer, because there are no > > words involved. "[A]nswered" is more likely now, and would have been [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > http://bible.ccim.org/cgi-user//bible/ob? > version=bbe&book=dan&chapter=3 Yes, it's a choice verging on the archaic. There's also "give answer", which has the same sort of feel. Nevertheless, neither is at all old-fashioned in the negative: "I made/gave no answer". This must be because both are also current with "an", "some", etc in between. "I made some answer, but I don't remember what." SignatureMike. -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com >Yes, it's a choice verging on the archaic. There's also "give answer", > which has the same sort of feel. Yes, I know that too. > Nevertheless, neither is at all > old-fashioned in the negative: "I made/gave no answer". This must be > because both are also current with "an", "some", etc in between. > "I made some answer, but I don't remember what." Thank you for these pointers. Marius Hancu |
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