Re: Bi-objective Prepositions & betweeness.

Quoting Caleb Hines <cph9fa@...>:

> As I was thinking about translating that into Akathanu, I realized
> something which I find to be rather odd. While most prepositions take a
> single object ('to the car', 'from him', 'for you', 'of me', etc...),
> 'between' apparently can take _two_ objects ('between X and Y'). Of course,
> it can also take one (plural) object ('between the houses'). It seems very
> odd to me that this preposition can have two objects, while most only have
> one.
I don't really see what's odd with it; "from me and Carlene", "towards
Tennessee and freedom", "for women and children", etc, etc are all good
English too, not?

                                                     Andreas

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