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

Thu Aug 15 13:53:51 UTC 2013

At 8/14/2013 10:42 PM, W Brewer wrote:
>{I am friends with Dzhokhar.} = 'Dzhokhar & I are friends.'

I have two heads?  I have multiple personalities?  I can't
distinguish singular from plural?

>When you figure this one out, explain to me the Russian construction:
>{My c njim} lit. 'we with him' = 'he & I'.
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