[rec.music.gaffa] An Answer

turney@cs.cornell.EDU (Jenn Turney) (06/10/91)

Michael Graham asks (and asks and asks):

>Will someone please tell me what:
>
> "be running up that road
>  be running up that hill
>  be running up that building"
>
>means?

Well, Michael, no definitive answer, but I was musing on this the
other day and thinking about the relative slopes of these things
(roads, hills, buildings).  Definitely increasing, from horizontal, to
gradually sloping, to vertical.  A progression of the difficulty of
tasks she could tackle "with no problem" with the capabilities of this
other person that she can't with her own ("if I onlycould").

Jenn
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