Re: Bishop's poem about prepositions
| From: | Carsten Becker <carbeck@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, January 22, 2006, 20:23 |
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On Sun, 22 Jan 2006 16:04 CET, Philip Newton wrote:
> I prefer "What did you bring the book that I didn't want to be read to
> out of up for?".
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> [...]
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> (Can you parse that? Or do you need brackets for that, too?)
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?
It's neither possible in German, nor in Ayeri to have such weird clusters of
prepositions.
Carsten
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