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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This isn’t new. You’re talking about using disappear as a transitive verb, which is usually reserved for describing people being killed/kidnapped like by a political regime. Not sure of the origin, though.[/quote] But it is grammatically incorrect. So when did it become mainstream?[/quote] I associate it with the regimes in Chile and Argentina in the 70s and 80s, and I've been hearing it that context as long as I've known about those events. U2's "Mothers of the Disappeared" came out in 1987.[/quote] Yes, exactly. Someone who hasn’t heard of this must be very young. [/quote]
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