XPost: alt.usage.english, alt.language.latin   
   From: phil@anonymous.invalid   
      
   On 13/11/2024 15:20, Christian Weisgerber wrote:   
   > On 2024-11-11, Hibou  wrote:   
   >   
   >>> "Si tu continues à manger autant de bonbons, tu vas aller et tomber   
   >>> malade !"   
   >>>   
   >>> "Wenn du so laut redest, wirst du noch gehen und die Nachbarn stören!"   
   >>   
   >> I'm going to skip the German, and approach the French with caution, not   
   >> being a native speaker.   
   >   
   > The German feels weird, but seems to mean "... you'll go    
   > and disturb the neighbors".  It implies a physical displacement.   
   > Your French is a lot better than mine, but I'd interpret the French   
   > the same way. In both cases the implied movement is unconnected to   
   > the rest of sentence, making the semantics feel weird.   
   >   
   > In English, "go and " is an idiomatic expression that emphasizes   
   > .  German and French don't use this idiom.   
   >   
      
   Some BrE speakers would take it further   
      
   "He's been and gone and done it".   
      
   Or even (cross-thread) "He's _only_ been and gone and done it".   
      
   --   
   Phil B   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)