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

[Dan Goncharoff]

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. Why do other relationships
present a problem?

DanG


On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 5:25 PM, Neal Whitman <nwhitman at ameritech.net>wrote:

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> 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
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> Neal
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> On Aug 14, 2013, at 4:45 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> > Heard:
> >
> > "I'm *co-workers with" Kim.
> >
> > I'm late to the party, as usual:
> >
> > 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#>
> >
> >   -
> >   <
> 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>
> >
> > 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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