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

Joel S. Berson Berson at ATT.NET
Thu Aug 15 00:44:55 UTC 2013


At 8/14/2013 05:33 PM, Dan Goncharoff wrote:
>All kidding aside, I don't see the construction "I'm N with" to be that odd
>-- "I'm friends with" sounds good, for example.

Well, to some.  Although not as not good as "I'm spouses with."

"I'm friendly with".  "I'm a friend of."  "I'm a twin of."  "X and I
are twins".

Joel

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