Ant_222  +  473092 Tue, 05 Feb 08 05:53 PM Hello all, I keep stumbling across the phrase "to type away", but I can't figure out whether its meaning is the same as that of just "to type" or not... Need your help. Ant_222 Joined on Sun, May 21 2006 Podolsk, Russia Contributing Member 1,717

	Yankee  +  473098 Tue, 05 Feb 08 06:27 PM Hi Ant He's been typing away for hours now.  That means he has been busily (or possibly fervently) typing, and suggests "non-stop" typing (i.e. without taking any breaks). Does that answer your question? Yankee Joined on Sat, Apr 15 2006 Connecticut, USA Veteran Member 6,500 Amy "You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus." - Mark Twain

	CalifJim  +  473125 Tue, 05 Feb 08 08:14 PM I associate away with continuity of action and a certain amount of absorption of the mind in the activity, mixed in many cases with an enjoyment of the activity.  It's not a particularly formal device. She was happily -- singing away; typing away; cooking away; whistling away It doesn't work with every verb, of course, The sound of the music was dying away in the distance. and it cannot be used in this meaning with statives, *living away, *sitting away, *depending away, *resting away and with many verbs, especially, but not exclusively, with verbs of motion, it has its literal meaning: run away; walk away; go away keep away; stay away; be away CJ CalifJim Joined on Mon, Aug 2 2004 California Veteran Member 22,413 "There are no facts, only interpretations" - Nietzsche Verbs

	CalifJim  +  473147 Tue, 05 Feb 08 08:47 PM When I am typing, I am away beause I am consumed cunsumed by typing. Not a bad paraphrase!  In a way, it is something like that -- to my mind, anyway.  CJ CalifJim

	Ant_222  +  473168 Tue, 05 Feb 08 09:44 PM Well, this in no way pretends to a definition, I just tried to convey the "business" aspect of your and Amy's explanations... in an exaggerated way. I'm glad I've been understood! Ant_222