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- 23-Dec-2011, 09:29 #1
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May I walk you home. May I walk you home.
Does it mean May I walk with you to your home?
Thank you.
- 23-Dec-2011, 09:31 #2
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Re: May I walk you home. Last edited by 5jj; 23-Dec-2011 at 12:51. Reason: format
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- 23-Dec-2011, 12:41 #3
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Re: May I walk you home. Yes, with the added implication '. . .to make sure you get home safely.'
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- 23-Dec-2011, 13:50 #4
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Re: May I walk you home. Sorry, I don't get what does formal ring of escort mean.
Originally Posted by 5jj 
Thank you.
- 23-Dec-2011, 14:39 #5
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Re: May I walk you home. It (the expression 'walk [somebody]) has the slightly formal ring (sound, tone, idea) of (the verb) 'escort'.[/QUOTE]
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- 23-Dec-2011, 15:05 #6
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Re: May I walk you home. As an example of the possible importance of this implication, when I was young we had family friends who lived up the road. Now and then I would walk their daughter home - because, my father having died young, my mother had given me strict lessons in Being a Gentleman. Originally Posted by 5jj
I later discovered that I had awoken in her young heart (the daughter that is - keep Oedipus out of this
) expectations of Something Else.
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