Re: Opinions on English

In a message dated 2000:09:18 5:21:03 AM, yl112@CORNELL.EDU writes:

>Do many languages have
>idioms composed of verb + prepositions that don't mean what you'd think
>literally (if you can even figure out what it'd mean literally)?
>
    From what I have seen just in Tok Pisin and Bislama (and some other
pidgins & creoles), this quite a natural form:

    mi bilong Amerika. mi nam bilong Jon.

    then for verb + prep.s:

    mi i stap long tebol <I am on the table>

    I gud sapos yu lanem Pisin.  <PD good if you learn Pidgin>

        [PD= predicate marker/particle, here it kinda acts like the word "be"]

    mi bin long taon finis. <I been PREP town finish>

    czHANg