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   August Abolins to Anton Shepelev:   
      
   AS>> The word `get' is so cruelly overused in English that   
   AS>> Ambrose Bierce, commenting on the phrase "to get   
   AS>> married", asks the reader why not to say "to get dead",   
   AS>> too. I therefore try to limit its office in my   
   AS>> vocabulary to the immediate meaning of taking   
   AS>> something. One phrase, however, makes me cudgel my   
   AS>> brains -- "to get into a car". What literate synonyms   
   AS>> can you propose for it without `get'? How about "to   
   AS>> board"? But I fear it does not work for both passenger   
   AS>> and driver. I got stuck...   
      
   AA> How about the terms ingress and egress?   
      
   I didn't know they could be verbs.  But even if they can,   
   are they transitive verbs?  In other words, can one ingress   
   a car without making fun of English grammar and himself?   
      
   I first encountered the word `egress' in the scene in Moby   
   Dick where Ishmael saw Bildad and Peleg quarrel over his   
   `lay'.   
      
   AA> Typically, they may refer to the ease or difficulty of   
   AA> getting in and out of "something", even in traffic.  But   
   AA> I think you can make them work as a substitute for your   
   AA> needs.   
      
   These words refer to the acts of entrace and exit. I see   
   nothing in their meanings that might be linked with the   
   difficulty of entering or exiting...   
      
   AA> Quoted with Reformator/Quoter. Info = https://tinyurl.com/sxnhuxc   
      
   Quoted with GNU Troff. Visit https://www.gnu.org/software/groff/   
      
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