Re: Adpositions gaining new uses

Quoting Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...>:

> On 2008-11-18 Andreas Johansson wrote:
> > In my (tween) idiolect at least, _måste_ "must, have to,
> > need to" works in all
> > of those.
> >
>
> <slaps head> Of course!  Sometimes the obvious is too
> obvious.
>
> But are you really a tween (8-13 y.o.)?
I'm not. For some reason I thought it meant someone in their twenties (I'm 26).

> And do you have the _vill/måste runt huset_ idiom? :-)
I don't.


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Andreas Johansson

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