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Re: CHAT: silly names, prepositions

From:jesse stephen bangs <jaspax@...>
Date:Sunday, March 18, 2001, 21:47
Muke Tever sikayal:

> > But, there are a few > > definite examples of final prepositions: > > > > What channel is it on? > > What store did you buy that at? > > What did you do that for? > > Who'd you learn it from? > > What chapter is the test on? > > Who'd you get it from? > > Who'd you buy it for? > > Hmm, but I think some final preposition use might be more dubious: > > How many tables have you looked for my cat under?
I'd blink at that one, sure, but I still think that it would be the first thing to come out of my mouth if I were to try to say this. I certainly *wouldn't* say "Under how many tables have you looked for my cat?" So the preposition-final form, although it strikes me as odd, is still the form I'd produce. Jesse S. Bangs jaspax@u.washington.edu "It is of the new things that men tire--of fashions and proposals and improvements and change. It is the old things that startle and intoxicate. It is the old things that are young." -G.K. Chesterton _The Napoleon of Notting Hill_ Conlanger code: CLI> l%p+++ cS:R:N:H a++ y n18d:6 X+++ A-- E-- L-- N2.5 Idmp k++ ia-- p+ m++ o+++ P d++ b++ Yivríndil

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