Re: Smell up

Adam Funk set the following eddies spiralling through the space-time
continuum:

On 2008-10-31, Prai Jei wrote:

Arfur Million set the following eddies spiralling through the space-time
continuum:

That's an interesting one. Without the "up", "smell" could very well be
taken to mean "stink", at least on the first reading. With the "up" it
removes that ambiguity, but it otherwise adds nothing to the meaning. To
my (BrE) ears the "up" sounds a little wrong, but it is used more often
in AmE ("listen up" etc).

"I like to understand up without seventeen clams"
- Douglas R. Hofstadter

I misread that as "claims" and thought we were talking about patent
applications.

q.v. in another thread here.
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