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From: "Darrell A. Martin" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] My thoughts on prepositions
Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 01:56:29 +0000
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At 12:56 AM 3/3/2005, Elizabeth Dean Vanasse wrote:
>As I said, I sort of do that but mine are <at [L1] ><in [L]> since I'm using
>L1 for what most people think of as detail and using L2 (the original
>detail) for Villages and such. (Also always specifying a prepositon. Never
>use any default.)

Hi, Elizabeth:

Not a bad system, for those who always put things that can use "at" in [L1]. But this just stops treating the preposition as a specific part of speech related to a place, and handles it instead as just another piece of text. That would cause problems for a significant number of us.

Darrell


Darrell A. Martin
a native Vermonter currently in exile in Illinois
http://www.darrell-martin.net/genealogy/


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