Re: Rating Languages

--- Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> wrote:
> David Peterson wrote:
> > 2.) I'm eating (present/present progressive):
> "What are you doing?" "I'm
> > eating; what's it look like?"
>
> Which can sometimes be used in the future "I'm
> leaving tomorrow at noon"
> or as a habitual "He's going to school at UF"
>
> Speaking of English, has anyone else encountered "be
> staying" for
> "live"?  E.g., "I'm staying at the Avenues [an
> apartment complex]"  I
> don't think I've encountered it used for a place
> that you own, it might
> be restricted to rental situations.  Still, I'd use
> "live" in those
> cases.
I can't recall anything specific, but I seem to
remember being asked "Where are you staying" a few
times by non-native speakers of English.  I too
wondered at the semantical differences between live
and stay, because it made me feel so awkward.  I felt
like answering "I'm not "staying" anywhere, I *live*
at . . ." and every time they asked me, I kept having
to remember to answer what they meant, not what they
said (to my mind).

I agree about using "live" for an apartment.  I use
staying for more like a temporary situation.  "We're
staying at such and such hotel.  We stayed at John
Doe's house. etc"

Funny, such little things.

HEather


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