Re: Latin a loglang? (was Re: Unambiguous languages (was: EU allumettes))
From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
Date: | Friday, May 14, 2004, 3:39 |
Mark J. Reed scripsit:
> On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 09:33:36PM +0100, Joe wrote:
> > > What did you bring that book that I didn't want
> > > to be read to about Down Under out of up for?
> >
> > In my dialect, that doesn't make grammatical sense - however, "What did
> > you bring that book that I didn't want to be read to out of about down
> > under up for?" does.
>
> Yeah, I think John just accidentally left out a couple of the
> prepositions.
No, I meant what I said. The only difference between my version and
Joe's is the order of "out of" and "about Down Under". I have no
problem with either version, and I'm surprised that you two did.
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