Coworkers with/colleagues with (was: Re: A logical extension, I reckon)

[Neal Whitman]

It struck my ear as odd when someone wrote me in an email a few weeks ago that she was "colleagues with" someone else. It looks like "be enemies with" is out there, too:
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22i'm+enemies+with%22&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&client=safari

Neal

On Aug 14, 2013, at 4:45 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:

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> Heard:
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> "I'm *co-workers with" Kim.
>
> I'm late to the party, as usual:
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> hey hey, hey - Customers
> Suck!<http://www.customerssuck.com/board/showthread.php?t=3D2561>
> www.customerssuck.com =E2=80=BA ... =E2=80=BA
> Orientation<http://www.customerssuck.com/board/forumdisplay.php?f=3D3>
> =E2=80=BA New members <http://www.customerssuck.com/board/forumdisplay.php=
> ?f=3D5>=E2=80=8E
> <https://encrypted.google.com/search?num=3D30&safe=3Doff&hl=3Den-us&authuse=
> r=3D0&site=3Dwebhp&q=3D%22I'm+co+workers+with%22&spell=3D1&sa=3DX&ei=3D-OkL=
> UpihGsKIyAGWqIDQDQ&ved=3D0CCkQvwUoAA&biw=3D1920&bih=3D992#>
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>   -
>   <http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=3Dcache:oNZi95lq96wJ:www=
> .customerssuck.com/board/showthread.php%3Ft%3D2561+&cd=3D5&hl=3Den&ct=3Dcln=
> k&gl=3Dus>
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> Sep 3, _2006_
> I'm *co-workers with* at least two other people on here
>
> via a most trivial search.
> --=20
> -Wilson
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