Timeline for Can I say "Sam offered to minute take"?
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| Dec 1, 2014 at 15:23 | comment | added | user6951 | Why the confusion of American English speakers? We don't minute-take in the USA. We take minutes of a meeting. Or we might need to take a minute to prepare for a meeting, even if that minute turns into twenty or more minutes. | |
| Dec 1, 2014 at 15:09 | answer | added | iolympian | timeline score: 3 | |
| Dec 1, 2014 at 10:21 | comment | added | Jim Reynolds | It strikes me as non-standard (US English), and I couldn't immediately figure out what was meant. I'm used to offered to take minutes. | |
| Nov 30, 2014 at 18:46 | comment | added | TimR | Temperature-take the room? Temperature-take the patient? | |
| Nov 30, 2014 at 15:39 | comment | added | F.E. | I've heard of "offered to take the minutes (of a meeting)", but not "offered to minute-take". I'm AmE, so I'm wondering whether "minute-take" is mostly a BrE thing? | |
| Nov 30, 2014 at 13:03 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | What @Tetsujin said. I also don't have any real problem with minute take as a sort of "limited-scope phrasal verb" - which is to say it's okay as an infinitive, but I wouldn't be so keen on conjugated forms such as "She minute took the meeting", or "The meeting was minute taken by Sam". The hyphen makes the usage more obvious (and thus more acceptable) in the written form - but that's not really important, since you can't hear it in the spoken form (i.e. - in "real" language). | |
| Nov 30, 2014 at 12:37 | comment | added | DoneWithThis. | it would work if it was hyphenated, "Sam offered to minute-take" That would remove the confusion. .."to take the minutes" would perhaps be more comfortable, but hyphenated wouldn't bother me greatly. | |
| Nov 30, 2014 at 12:04 | history | edited | CowperKettle | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 30, 2014 at 11:54 | history | edited | CowperKettle |
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| Nov 30, 2014 at 11:44 | history | asked | Poppy | CC BY-SA 3.0 |