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Re: Disambiguation of arg ument reference

From:Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...>
Date:Saturday, October 12, 2002, 3:12
Tim May wrote:
> Well, can you say "What are you putting into?", which doesn't have > this problem?
Not for me, you'd have to say either "What are you putting it into?" or "What are you putting into it?" depending on what you're wanting to know. "Put" requires three arguments, subject, object, and some kind of locative. -- "There's no such thing as 'cool'. Everyone's just a big dork or nerd, you just have to find people who are dorky the same way you are." - overheard ICQ: 18656696 AIM Screen-Name: NikTaylor42