From: "Keith Gaughan"
>...> David Peterson le scríobh chugam:
>...> > I'm very, very confused by this. Do you mean to say that a phrase
like,
>...> >"The man of my seeing is walking into a plate glass window" means, to
you,
>...> >"The man that I see..."!?
>...> Yup!
>...> > How did this come to be?
>...> Good question. The problem with it is that I have no idea where the idiom
> originates. It is rather `unique', I think :-)
Someone somewhere in your linguistic environment must (have) accept(ed) it,
else I should think the scrunched, confused faces of your listeners would
(have) discourage(d) it. :)
Kou