Re: CHAT: silly names, prepositions

>
> Hmm, but I think some final preposition use might be more dubious:
>
> How many tables have you looked for my cat under?
>
I'm afraid I wouldn't call that dubious, and that is how I'm likely to
under (but I'd be more likely to write 'How many tables have you looked
under for my cat')

> I don't think most of them are too hard (although I might be getting it
> wrong...)
>
> My English already has /stS/ in it ('strength, strain'), /StS/ isn't too far
> off.  [But then, the Polish sound isn't exactly /S/, is it...]
As does mine, except more frequently: both in strength, etc, and
student, etc, although the latter is really an English ch, but the
former is suttly different, I can't explain how, exactly. It flows
better, I guess.

Tristan


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