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Re: LC-01 genitive noun phrases

From:Peter Bleackley <peter.bleackley@...>
Date:Tuesday, October 28, 2003, 10:29
Staving David Peterson:


>Why not "sngakang skalat"? This could be a case like in English: You >can't say *picker up,
I think you can. "A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles", Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale.
>and you can't say *pick upper, so you have to say "picker upper".
I'm sure that both of these are slang. "This is the sort of English up with which we will not put!" Churchill. Pete

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