Yes, but it has the slightly formal ring of 'escort'.
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#1 23-Dec-2011, 10:29May I walk you home.
May I walk you home.
Does it mean May I walk with you to your home?
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#2 23-Dec-2011, 10:31Re: May I walk you home.
Last edited by 5jj; 23-Dec-2011 at 13:51. Reason: format
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#3 23-Dec-2011, 13:41Re: May I walk you home.
Yes, with the added implication '. . .to make sure you get home safely.'
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#4 23-Dec-2011, 14:50Re: May I walk you home.
Sorry, I don't get what does formal ring of escort mean.
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#5 23-Dec-2011, 15:39Re: 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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#6 23-Dec-2011, 16:05Re: 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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