>From: Heather Rice <florarroz@...>
>Reply-To: Constructed Languages List <CONLANG@...>
>To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU
>Subject: Re: Rating Languages
>Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 19:58:54 -0700
>
>--- 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
>
>
>__________________________________________________
>Do You Yahoo!?
>Listen to your Yahoo! Mail messages from any phone.
>
http://phone.yahoo.com