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Re: TAN: new words [was: RE: LONG: Latest Wenetaic Stuff]

From:Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
Date:Saturday, October 30, 1999, 1:34
Tom Wier wrote:
> Actually, English has a couple postpositions. "asunder" and "apart" > both act as postpositions: "He broke it asunder", and "He broke > it apart". German "entlang" and (I think) "entgegen" also operate > along similar lines.
I dunno about that. I think that in those cases those are like the "up" in "run up" (in the sense of "run a bill up"). I don't see any postpositional relationship there. -- "It has been postulated that, given an infinite number of monkeys bashing away at an infinite number of keyboards, we could eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Thanks to the Internet, we now know this to be incorrect." - Anonymous http://members.tripod.com/~Nik_Taylor/X-Files http://members.tripod.com/~Nik_Taylor/Books.html ICQ: 18656696 AIM Screen-Name: NikTailor