Re: Adpositions gaining new uses

Mark Reed wrote:
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>"I want on your shoulders" sounds like perfectly good English to me.
>No need to posit a German influence for that one.
>
To me, sound OK as little-kid-speak (which I assume is its source); OTOH we
adults might say things like "I want at the computer" or "I want on the bus"
so I guess it's not all that strange [elision of that all-purpose verb, 'to
get'?].