Re: preposition
From: | Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...> |
Date: | Sunday, March 18, 2001, 15:09 |
On Sat, 17 Mar 2001, Marcus Smith wrote:
> At 3/17/01 01:54 PM +1100, you wrote:
> >>What store did you buy that at?
> >
> >You'd say that? I would've said 'Where did you buy that?' (or 'Where ja
> >buy that?')
> >>
> >>And even in cases where the preposition is not strictly necessarily,
> >>like:
> >>
> >>Where'd you go to?
> >>Where do you live at?
> >This just sound 'broken and wrong'.
>
> The all sound perfectly natural to me. I know many peole (including myself)
> who say these things regularly.
I second that. :-p
YHL