Re: THEORY: more questions

Quoting Tristan McLeay <zsau@...>:

> On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, Costentin Cornomorus wrote:
>
> > I'm not sure what's wrong with "give it me".
>
> Mostly the semantics. It's unlikely you're going to tell someone to give
> you to something. With no 'to', the two consecutive nouns go IO DO.
I can just immagine some melodramatic Fantasy movie, in which a daemonic being
demands a human to eat in return for not making whatever other nefarious thing
it was planning to do, and some selfless (probably female) sidekick tells the
(undoubtedy male) hero that; "give it me!".

                                                      Andreas

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