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   Hi, Mark!  Recently you wrote in a message to Alexander Koryagin:   
      
    AK>  My sentence had the opposite sense. I drained Jim   
    AK>  everything that I knew...   
      
    ml>  ahhh... in that case, you are missing "to" in the   
    ml>  statement...   
      
    ml>  I drained to Jim everything that I knew [...]   
      
      
               Thanks to you & Anton, I now understand what Alexander had in   
   mind. When we drain a bathtub or a swamp, e.g., the water goes somewhere else   
   & there is little or none remaining in that location.  I was having difficulty   
   with the idea of using "drain" WRT what a person knows because... in the   
   ordinary way of things... they'd still have access to it.   
      
               WRT concrete objects I interpret "I'll give to you a paper of   
   pins" as equivalent to "I'll give you a gift, on the understanding that by so   
   doing I am transferring ownership".  When I drain my bathtub the water goes   
   into a pipe which ends at a waste treatment plant somewhere on Annacis   
   Island.  Either way, the speaker no longer possesses &/or retains custody of   
   whatever it is....  :-)   
      
      
      
      
   --- timEd/386 1.10.y2k+   
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