From: seawasp@sgeinc.invalid.com   
      
   On 11/27/15 2:36 PM, Michelle Bottorff wrote:   
   > Sometimes when I am speaking the construction "try to [verb]" I drop the   
   > "to" out of it.  It's a matter of cadence and emphasis and stuff.   
   >   
   > "Are you okay?  Is the hill too much for you?  Do you need to rest?"   
   > "I want to try make it to the next bench -- I'll rest there."   
   >   
   > or   
   >   
   > "Don't you dare try touch me you scumbag!"   
   >   
   > etc.   
   >   
   >   
   > I think this is a normal thingy that lots of English speakers do   
   > (probably without even noticing that they are doing it).   
      
      
   	I would find it astounding that lots of them do outside of particular   
   dialects which make a habit of omitting certain words. I certainly do   
   not do this, and if I WERE to do so I'd stop mid-sentence and go back   
   and correct myself. Reading it it sounds like Hulk-Speak to me. "Hulk   
   try make it to bench! If bench not support Hulk, Hulk smash!"   
      
      
      
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