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From: dts@gitpyr.UUCP (Danny Sharpe)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: Being taken care of. (prepositions)
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Date: Mon, 1-Apr-85 10:16:29 EST
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In article <1867@sdcrdcf.UUCP> barryg@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Lee Gold) writes:
>One of the shocks in learning Japanese was getting used to post-positions
>(like prepositions but they follow the noun rather than going before it).

I've seen it said that English had a few postpositions.  "Ago", as in
"a long time ago" is an example.

                                                -Danny


-- Either Argle-Bargle IV or someone else. --

Danny Sharpe
School of ICS
Georgia Insitute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
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-- 
-- Either Argle-Bargle IV or someone else. --

Danny Sharpe
School of ICS
Georgia Insitute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
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