"to" = "as"

[Wilson Gray]

I sincerely hope not! OTOH, after we're dust in the wind,
prescriptivists of the future may be insisting on just such
constructions.

-Wilson

On Jul 26, 2005, at 7:56 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:

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> Can such things be ?
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> BBC News, May 4, 1999
> [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/334517.stm] :
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> "They were carbon-dated to 3300-3200 BC. This is about the same time,
> or slightly earlier, to the primitive writing developed by the
> Sumerians of the Mesopotamian civilisation around 3100 BC."
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> JL
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