Re: Bishop's poem about prepositions

--- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, Carsten Becker <carbeck@G...> wrote:

> Yes I can: For which reason did you bring the book out of which I do not
> want to be read to up? Or, in German: Warum hast du das Buch
hochgebracht,
> aus dem ich nicht vorgelesen haben will?
I would have parsed "bring up" as "mention" in this context,
but I guess it does make sense in the literal sense.

Oh, and the joke would be completely lost in any of my
langs, I'm afraid, especially in the oh-so-linear Oro Mpaa.


-- Christian Thalmann

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