On Thu, Dec 24, 2020 at 04:19:43PM -0800, Rick Moen wrote: > Quoting Hendrik Boom ([email protected]): > > > Another such an example is > > John and me went swimming. > > Here 'and' serves as a preposition. > > I'm not sure where the location is, where 'and' fails to be a conjunction > when used between two nouns in that fashion, but I'm curious what colour > the sky is, there.
I've been told that was the case in a long-gonne ancestor of modern English, possible Old English or the language of Beowulf. -- hendrik > > -- > Cheers, "Like looking both ways before crossing the street, and > Rick Moen then getting hit by a submarine." -- Clarke Smith, age > 9, > [email protected] winner of Washtington Post's contest for best description > McQ! (4x80) of the year 2020 in a single word or phrase. > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
