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Expression: 'Sorry, never come across the late lamented so I can't react.'



 
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Expression: 'Sorry, never come across the late lamented so I can't react.' #1 (permalink) Fri Feb 16, 2007 7:13 am   Expression: 'Sorry, never come across the late lamented so I can't react.'
 

Alan wrote:
Sorry, never come across the late lamented so I can't react.


Hi

I would like to understand the structure of this sentence by Alan. "Never come across"--does it mean that "have" is understood here, therefore, Alan used "come" here? What is the meaning of late lamented?

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Expression: 'Sorry, never come across the late lamented so I can't react.' #2 (permalink) Fri Feb 16, 2007 9:39 am   Expression: 'Sorry, never come across the late lamented so I can't react.'
 

Hi Tom,

Yes, this is conversational, chatty, informal and is short, as you say, for I have never come across. 'Late' refers to someone who has recently died or at least within recent memory. 'Lamented' means literally 'mourned' and the whole expression 'late lamented' is a conventional expression referrring respecfully to someone whose death is mourned.

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