Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mit-eddie.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!harpo!ihnp4!mit-eddie!barmar From: barmar@mit-eddie.UUCP (Barry Margolin) Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Re: Final prepositions turn me on. - (nf) Message-ID: <1702@mit-eddie.UUCP> Date: Sat, 28-Apr-84 17:59:49 EDT Article-I.D.: mit-eddi.1702 Posted: Sat Apr 28 17:59:49 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 29-Apr-84 08:17:15 EDT References: <1350@inmet.UUCP> Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA Lines: 17 -------------------- OK, grammarians... rephrase "You get what you pay for" without a preposition at the end! Andrew W. Rogers, Intermetrics ...{harpo|ihnp4|ima|esquire}!inmet!andrew -------------------- You pay for what you get. Don't complain if you think the connotation is different; we do lots of things to the language in order to add connotations, not the least of which is the addition of body language and intonation, neither of which can currently be transmitted over the net. -- Barry Margolin ARPA: barmar@MIT-Multics UUCP: ..!genrad!mit-eddie!barmar