Talk:care
Latest comment: 2 years ago by Backinstadiums in topic Negative Polarity Item
Wikipedia edit
Tho not for long, the following DictDef is at WP's article:
- In common use, care refers to a mental or emotional state of predisposition in which one has an interest or concern for someone or something. To care for someone, may also refer to a disquieted state of mixed uncertainty, apprehension, and responsibility; or a cause for such anxiety. Caring for an object, such as a house, refers to a state of attendant maintenance; or may also refer to a state of charge or supervision, as in under a doctor’s care.
- == See also ==
transitive edit
Collins: (transitive) to agree or like (to do something): would you care to sit down, please? Random House: (v.t.) to wish; desire; like: Would you care to dance? https://www.wordreference.com/definition/care
Yet here it's labeled as intransitive. --Backinstadiums (talk) 15:15, 28 August 2019 (UTC)
Appalachian edit
Another example/mention of te Appalachian "mind" sense:
- 2013, Amy D. Clark, Nancy M. Hayward, Talking Appalachian: Voice, Identity, and Community, page 141:
- For example, common expressions in the coalfields include “If you don't care to, get me a pop” or “If the creek don't rise.”
In a state of being cared for by a government institution. --Backinstadiums (talk) 15:45, 24 August 2020 (UTC)
Just as we have uncared-for or well-groomed--Backinstadiums (talk) 20:11, 15 October 2020 (UTC)
Negative Polarity Item edit
To desire; like: [with a negative word or phrase, or in questions] [~ + to + verb] Would you care to dance? [~ + for + object] Would you care for dessert? --Backinstadiums (talk) 09:13, 16 August 2021 (UTC)