Re: Rating Languages

In a message dated 9/28/01 12:16:28 PM, fortytwo@GDN.NET writes:

<< I would only say that if I were actually there at the time I was
talking.  :-)  If I'm elsewhere and someone asks where I live/stay, I'd
use "live", if I were to answer in a complete sentence, which I probably
wouldn't.  But I'd definitely use "live" when asking someone that
question. >>

    Well, it really makes sense, though, given Berkeley's housing conditions;
it's nearly unheard of for somebody to be at the same place every years
(sometimes every semester).  So, for instace, when someone asked where I was
staying now, I said, "Oh, now I'm at Ridge; it's right next door to Casa
Zimbabwe, where I was last year".  Nothing about "living" in any of those.

<<It's also interesting that it's "be staying" but simply "live".>>

    That is very interesting.  Could it be that it's because to live,
originally, was a verb like "to feel", that is, intransitive and
semi-experiential, like "to feel", "to love", etc.?

-David

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