Re: Cases and Prepositions (amongst others)
| From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, June 7, 2000, 14:21 |
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Nik Taylor wrote:
> I've often wondered, how do New Yorkers distinguish between being
> "online" and being "on line"?
Context is all. /A(R)juAnlaIn/ with rising pitch means one thing if
you are standing in a lobby, and another thing if you are sitting before
a computer.
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