Re: Latin a loglang? (was Re: Unambiguous languages (was: EU allumettes))
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, May 13, 2004, 22:09 |
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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.
Which, of course, aren't actually prepositions in this context. :)
But while your version makes grammatical sense, it's the sort of
deliberate extensio ad absurdum up with which I do not put. :) The more
natural way of saying that in my 'lect would be "Why did you bring up
that book about Down Under that I don't want to be read to out of?"
which ends in a mere three prefauxsitions.
-Mark
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