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Missing vs. missed

Why is it a "missing" person rather than a "missed" person? "Missing" looks like a present participle to me.
I've always wondered about this.
Thx in advance.
Markus
  

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[nq:1]Why is it a "missing" person rather than a "missed" person? "Missing" looks like a present participle to me. [/nq] Different meanings.

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  • [nq:1]Why is it a "missing" person rather than a "missed" person?
  • "Missing" looks like a present participle to me.
  • [/nq] Different meanings.
  • "Missing" means absent or lost.
  • "Missed" means that the absence of that missing person is felt (missed) by someone.
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[nq:1]Why is it a "missing" person rather than a "missed" person? "Missing" looks like a present participle to me. I've always wondered about this.[/nq]
Different meanings.
"Missing" means absent or lost.
"Missed" means that the absence of that missing person is felt (missed) by someone.
There are times when a missing person is not missed by anyone.
Skitt (in SF Bay Area)
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[nq:2]Why is it a "missing" person rather than a "missed" person? "Missing" looks like a present participle to me. I've always wondered about this.[/nq]
[nq:1]Different meanings. "Missing" means absent or lost. "Missed" means that the absence of that missing person is felt (missed) by someone. There are times when a missing person is not missed by anyone.[/nq]
I neglected to mention that a
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[nq:2]Why is it a "missing" person rather than a "missed" person? "Missing" looks like a present participle to me. I've always wondered about this.[/nq]
[nq:1]Different meanings. "Missing" means absent or lost. "Missed" means that the absence of that missing person is felt (missed) by someone. There are times when a missing person is not missed by anyone.[/nq]
I've got a little list/I'm su
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[nq:2]Why is it a "missing" person rather than a "missed" person? "Missing" looks like a present participle to me. I've always wondered about this.[/nq]
[nq:1]Different meanings. "Missing" means absent or lost. "Missed" means that the absence of that missing person is felt (missed) by someone. There are times when a missing person is not missed by anyone.[/nq]
Especially if the NRA are aro
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[nq:2]Different meanings. "Missing" means absent or lost. "Missed" means that ... times when a missing person is not missed by anyone.[/nq]
[nq:1]I neglected to mention that a person can be missed without being a missing person. That person may merely be away somewhere at a known place not missing at all.[/nq]
Or someone could have mislaid the person, careless as that is, making the poor b
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[nq:1]There are times when a missing person is not missed by anyone.[/nq]
That's the reason why I asked, because in the song "Goodbye Earl" by the Dixie Chicks there is a line going:
"It turned out that he was a missing person who nobody missed at all."

Markus
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[nq:2]... "Missing" means absent or lost. "Missed" means that the absence of that missing person is felt (missed) by someone ...[/nq]
[nq:1]I neglected to mention ...[/nq]
You mean you, er, missed that?

Good luck and good sailing.
s/v Kerry Deare of Barnegat
http://kerrydeare.tripod.com
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[nq:1]Or someone could have mislaid the person, careless as that is, making the poor baby a missed missing person.[/nq]
There's a joke there somewhere about a "mislaid" young woman who was later dropped off at the wrong address, and is now a "mislaid," mislaid, missing, and missed Miss.
(Can somebody fix that up?)
Maria Conlon
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