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- From: c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca (Kazimir Kylheku)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: void main() and other atrocities!
- Date: 9 Feb 1996 11:42:48 -0800
- Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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- In article <4f36ts$j9k@fountain.mindlink.net>,
- Gene Wirchenko <genew@mindlink.bc.ca> wrote:
- >c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca (Kazimir Kylheku) wrote:
- >>Can someone else identify with me? :)
- >
- > No, but I can identify you.
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- Hmm. Are you saying that "identify" cannot take a prepositional phrase?
- I know that speakers of English do use it in the loose sense that I did,
- although some grade-school grammar teachers may disagree. Of course, the same
- teachers classify nouns into transitive and intransitive, which is not enough
- to distiguish words that can only take prepositional phrase objects ("dart")
- from ones that can only take noun phrase objects ("kill") from ones that
- require _both_ ("put"), so these teachers might not know _why_ they disagree
- with my usage except by referring to a list of exceptional words that "require"
- certain prepositions.
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- You can't be angry "at" someone, you have to be angry "with" someone, right?
- Sure, whatever!
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