[Ads-l] Not English, but related

Geoffrey Steven Nathan geoffnathan at WAYNE.EDU
Tue Dec 2 14:25:29 UTC 2014


Following on the thread of innovative V-N compound verbs that we saw last week I received an email from a Paris restaurant I am on the mailing list of (take that, prescriptivists!): 


Tripadvisez-nous sur Tripadvisor.com 


(for those whose French is wobbly: 'Tripadvise us on Tripadvisor') 


Geoff 



Geoffrey S. Nathan 
Faculty Liaison, C&IT 
and Professor, Linguistics Program 
http://blogs.wayne.edu/proftech/ 
+1 (313) 577-1259 (C&IT) 

Nobody at Wayne State will EVER ask you for your password. Never send it to anyone in an email, no matter how authentic the email looks. 



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