| 词组 | disremember |
| 释义 | disremember On the whole, criticism of disremember has softened over time. Bache 1869 labels it both "obsolete" and "a low vulgarism." Ayres 1881 says it is "vulgarly used in the sense of forget." Vizetelly 1906 commands: "Avoid this term as provincial and archaic, and use forget instead." Krapp 1927 says it is "dialectal and humorous." Shaw gives an old-fashionedly harsh opinion in 1970 ("An illiteracy. Never use this word in standard English.") but has mellowed somewhat by 1975 ("This word is dialectal rather than illiterate, but good speakers prefer forget or fail to remember"). Reader's Digest 1983 calls disremember "a dialectal word" which "is sometimes used by standard speakers for folksy effect; this is an informal use." So much for opinion; now for the actual evidence. Disremember can be found in dialect studies of the U.S. (especially the South) and Great Britain. It has been used in narrative and dialogue by fictional characters from various parts of the U.S., often with humorous effect or to suggest the rustic and uneducated. And it is very occasionally found in nonfiction. • ... there didn't happen to be no candle burnin if I don't disremember —Frances Miriam Whitcher, "Hezekiah Bedott," 1855, in The Mirth of a Nation, ed. Walter Blair & Raven I. McDavid, Jr., 1983 • "... one of those Massachusetts fellers—I disremember his name " —Kenneth Roberts, Oliver Wiswell, 1940 • "It was the British who did it," I said quickly. "I disremember the place and time" —E. L. Doctorow, Loon Lake, 1979 • ... when the composer, well on toward the patriarchal age of eighty-one ... , disremembered so much —Irving Kolodin, Saturday Rev., 29 May 1954 We are not sure how common disremember is in standard spoken English, though it does not appear in the million-word corpus analyzed by Hartvig Dahl in Word Frequencies of Spoken American English (1979). Nonetheless, we suspect that it is basically a spoken word that only occasionally finds its way into print, and then usually for a particular effect. |
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