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Do you chop things? If so, chop things up or chop things down? ~

Posted - January 2, 2018

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  • 3191
    Yeppers.  Both. 
      January 2, 2018 7:24 AM MST
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  • 13071
    Up. Im a positive person. ;)
      January 2, 2018 8:18 AM MST
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  • 3191
    I have a dark side.
      January 2, 2018 9:12 AM MST
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  • 13071
    Join the club. ;D
      January 2, 2018 10:11 AM MST
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  • 3191
    I was born into it.  :) 
      January 2, 2018 10:28 AM MST
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  • 10026
    I chop up pork chops and I don't chop down trees.  Maybe if things are taller than you, it is said to chop down.  Luckily, I I have't met a pig taller than me.  Now that would be scary!
      January 2, 2018 2:33 PM MST
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  • 22891
    no, i dont bother since i dont cook, i just microwave
      January 2, 2018 2:52 PM MST
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  • 5354
    If I were a Cook I would chop thing up.
    If I were a lumberjack I would chop trees down.
    I real life I have done both This post was edited by JakobA the unAmerican. at January 3, 2018 3:37 PM MST
      January 2, 2018 3:54 PM MST
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  • I chop vegetables in preparation for evening meals, and weeds for composting or mulch, using a downward action of the tool.

    In colloquial English, to "chop up" suggests chopping into smaller pieces. To "chop down" suggests cutting down something large, like a tree, or something dangerous, like an enemy or an arrogant or powerful person.

    I find the use of "up" interesting. The horse trainer Monty Roberts annexes "-up" to much of his language. He lives at Flag-Is-Up Farms. When a horse has learned to connect with him, he calls it "Join-Up." His horses learn to turn up, listen up, step up, back up, load up, speed up, walk up, trot up and lope up, but they also learn to calm down with everything. In every case, the word "up" seems redundant to me; it doesn't change the actual meaning of the action. But it carries a nuance with it. Somehow, the command to do something sounds friendlier when the "up" is added. This post was edited by Benedict Arnold at January 3, 2018 3:37 PM MST
      January 2, 2018 4:22 PM MST
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  • 3523
    Mostly I chop UP vegetables for Chinese food.
      January 2, 2018 7:28 PM MST
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  • 46117
    I use it sometimes in massage. 


      January 2, 2018 7:33 PM MST
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  • 3523
    Dang, Sharonna!  Is that you?
      January 3, 2018 8:30 AM MST
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  • 46117
    I'm not that tan and she's much prettier.
      January 3, 2018 9:08 AM MST
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