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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">From: </span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gI"><span class="gD">Pat Barrett</span> <span class="go"><a href="mailto:pbarrett@cox.net">pbarrett@cox.net</a></span></span>
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    Subject: <span class="gI">LL-L "Etymology" 2012.03.02 (02) [EN-NL]</span><br>
    <br></div><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font>Russian has pochemu and zachem, the former 
inquiring into the reason for a past action and zachem the motivation for an 
anticipated action. At least that's what the books say.</font></div>
<div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font>I checked my sense of meaning for Why, How come, 
and What for and can't come up with a distinction.</font></div>
<div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font>Why did you do that? What did you do that for? How 
come you did that?</font></div>
<div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font>Why are you flying to Boston? What are you flying 
to Boston for? How come you are flying to Boston? </font></div>
<div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font>How come is quite colloquial and 
familiar.<br><br></font><span class="HOEnZb adL"><font color="#888888"><font>Pat Barrett <a href="mailto:pbarrett@cox.net" target="_blank">pbarrett@cox.net</a><br><a href="http://ideas.lang-learn.us/barrett.php" target="_blank">http://ideas.lang-learn.us/barrett.php</a></font></font></span><br>

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