Timeline for Two kinds of "borrow"
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| Mar 28, 2014 at 22:41 | comment | added | Marco | For those tempted to downvote this: the second meaning of "to borrow" that's explained in the question above does not match the english version of "to borrow": if anything, it's closer to a loan or an exchange. True, the denotation of spare does not refer to anything resembling repayment, but I can see the connotation of "to spare" implying a repayment in some groups. | |
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| Mar 28, 2014 at 5:47 | comment | added | wwkudu |
spare is a fun example because it reverses persons. I don't spare when I ask you something, but I ask you if you can spare it.
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| Mar 28, 2014 at 5:12 | comment | added | David M | I can accept that. I just don't know that spare means lend in the same way. It's really a gift. That you and your friends repay each other is admirable, but I think it's more of cute thing where you pretend to beg off each other than a term for borrowing . . . Perhaps I'm wrong. | |
| Mar 28, 2014 at 5:09 | comment | added | 000 | I think it depends on social context. If I said that to one of my friends, we know we have a history of give and take. If a guy on the street said that to me, then the sense is different. | |
| Mar 28, 2014 at 5:07 | comment | added | David M | That has no sense of repayment, though. | |
| Mar 28, 2014 at 5:02 | history | answered | 000 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |