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>From: markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark)
Subject: Re: missing verbs
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In article <BILL.92Sep9232609@ca3.nsma.arizona.edu> bill@nsma.arizona.edu (Bill Skaggs) writes:
>Anyway, English (and other languages) are full of curious asymmetries.
>For example, it's okay to say "The bicycle is next to the house", but
>it's not okay to say "The house is next to the bicycle", though
>logically they ought to mean the same thing.

Logically, "the bicycle is next to the house" means "the bicycle was put next
to the house", and "the house is next to the bicycle" means "the house was put
next to the bicycle."

"A lost to B" means the same as "B defeated A"


