Re: New Strong Verbs (was: PS Emphatics)

At 11:37:27 AM on Sunday, February 3, 2008, Richard
Wordingham wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott"
> <BMScott@...> wrote:

>> They even offer the English strong verb some new blood at
>> <http://verben.texttheater.de/v3/en.htm>, but I'm not
>> convunce that there's wide acceptance for the idea that
>> English verbs need to be stronken.

> They missed strong past 'controve' of 'contrive', e.g.
> "After his military defeat in the power struggle within
> the PLO, Chairman Arafat, in pursuit of restoring his
> leadership, strove to strengthen relations with Jordan and
> Egypt in 1984. In November 1984, he controve to hold a
> meeting of the Palestine National Congress (PNC) in Amman
> without the participation of middle-road or anti-Arafat
> factions." -

> <http://www.mofa.go.jp/policy/other/bluebook/1985/1985-2.htm>.

> I'm not sure how valid an example this is - the author
> might not be a native speaker, and 'controve' may well
> have been induced by 'strove' in the previous sentence.

True, though the analogical pull is strong enough that more
than once I've had 'controve, contriven' flash through the
back of my mind when I used the word.

Brian