On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 11:46 AM, Dana Nutter <li_sasxsek@...> wrote:
>> [mailto:CONLANG@listserv.brown.edu] On Behalf Of Jim Henry
>> in contrast to external tools and materials. I've recently
>> experimented
>> with deriving another instrumental postp. for using materials
>> that get used up during a task as opposed to tools that
>> typically continue to be usable for future tasks, but I'm not
.....
> The idea of something for materials that diminish or
> disintegrate in the process is kind of interesting. Something
> like "my car runs *on* gasoline" where "on" would be some
> special word like "burning up".
Or more generally "consuming".
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Jim Henry
http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry/