Talk:get over here

RFD discussion: April 2021
SoP composition of get + over here. No lemmings. Current def has the note "typically in an impatient manner", but I think most imperatives formed with (this sense of) get tend to have a brusque connotation - it's not unique to this phrase. Colin M (talk) 20:49, 22 April 2021 (UTC)
 * The reader would need to know that it is a combination of get and over here rather than get over and here. As anyone who has payed Mortal Kombat may recall, it can just as readily be used when physically forcing someone to come to you as when demanding that they come to you. bd2412 T 21:18, 22 April 2021 (UTC)


 * Delete. It can actually be either, though, and both are SoP. "I have a few problems to get over here." Same would apply to "look over there!" (not look over), etc. etc. Equinox ◑ 04:39, 23 April 2021 (UTC)
 * There is a missing comma there. It should be, "I have a few problems to get over, here", or else it is grammatically incorrect. bd2412 T 19:54, 24 April 2021 (UTC)
 * According to what rule of grammar? Would you say "I have an apartment, here"? Or "I have a few problems to get over, today"? That looks very strange to me, and doesn't reflect the prosody of these sentences when spoken. Colin M (talk) 23:44, 24 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Separation of clauses; "have an apartment" is not a clause in either sentence; "get over" is, in both. Commas are recommended to dispel ambiguity, which you have aptly demonstrated clearly exists between get over here and get over here. Perhaps I should have said that the "problems" example is poor grammar rather than incorrect grammar, but we aren't constructing a dictionary of poor grammar. bd2412 T 04:46, 25 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Is “here” in “I have a few problems to get over here” a ? --Lambiam 10:34, 27 April 2021 (UTC)
 * It is certainly not part of the clause that precedes it, which is what it needs to be distinguished from. "I have a few problems to get, over here" means something different from "I have a few problems to get over, here". In theory, a construction could be found where the speaker actually does mean "I have a few problems to get over here" (i.e., "I have a few problems to bring to this place"). bd2412 T 06:33, 29 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete. 🔥 शब्दशोधक 🔥 04:35, 23 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete. This is just either of two possible SOPs. Glades12 (talk) 05:38, 25 April 2021 (UTC)

Fine, deleted. bd2412 T 06:11, 25 April 2021 (UTC)