Re: expressing pleasure
| From: | Nokta Kanto <red5_2@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, March 29, 2004, 2:37 |
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On Sat, 27 Mar 2004 23:20:49 -0600, Andrew W Soukup <aws@...> wrote:
>How many of you express pleasure with a transitive verb such as 'to
>like' as opposed to 'to be pleasing to.'
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>Andy S
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Personally, I prefer to express pleasure with sultry moans and sighs. ;)
In Harpelan, liking something would probably use the same form as being
someone's friend or boss or acquaintance, which is a sort-of-stative verb,
but doesn't use the stative form.