Re: OT: English and schizophrenia

Hi!

"Thomas R. Wier" <artabanos@...> writes:
> > > without exception the biggest grumble was "English phrasal verbs".
Oh, yes, they are hard.  Harder than L1-unknown aspects (progressive).
German has those, too, but others, unfortunately. :-)

> > to hand out (out of what?)
> > to give a hand, to give a helping hand (the latter is a bit easier to
> > figure out, for me)
> > to wear out (out of what?)
> > to turn in (for the night, for the evening)
> > to turn up (at someone's place, unexpectedly)
> > to turn out (of someone's house, probably that someone's own)
Those are totally illogical. :-(

> I don't think I'd find these particularly more confusing than German
> constructions of roughly equivalent weirdness:  absaufen, Ausgleich,
> Anschlu