On 4/22/11 10:23 AM April 22, 2011, Aadisht Khanna wrote:
On 22-04-2011 21:15, Eugen Leitl wrote:
On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 08:41:23AM -0700, Heather Madrone wrote:
Oh, and for some reason people are down on this
whole euthanasia thing. Beats me.
I'm not sure about the usage of your colloquialism. By 'are down on' do
you mean 'in favour of' or 'against'?
“Down on” is against. If they were “down with,” they'd be in favour of.
I didn't realize how often prepositions modify the meanings of English
verbs until I started learning Dutch, which does the exact same thing. I
was grumbling to myself about this one day, when the verb “to take”
grabbed my by the elbow and said, “That's nothing, baby! Take in, take
out, take on, take off, take over, take down, take up....”
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Heather Madrone ([email protected])
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I'd love to change the world, but they won't give me access to the source code.
