Re: â? â? â? LC-01 genitive noun phrase s
| From: | Roger Mills <romilly@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, October 30, 2003, 16:10 |
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Andreas Johansson wrote:
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> "Picker-up" is what I'd say, but not being native that of course doesn't
really
> count.
Just to insert my 2cents here-- personally, I'd say "picker-upper" too, and
similarly some other phrases, albeit somewhat randomly, and almost always
with a smirk, knowing that it's "wrong"........
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> Does the form "up-picker" occur? It seems the second most natural
alternative
> to me ...
>
No, but one of my professors, married IIRC to a Dane, liked to say things
like, "Well, it's time to do the up-washing"-- but also with a smirk.
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