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From: rte@elmo.lz.att.com (Ralph T. Edwards)
Subject: Re: German postpositions [was Re: preposition->postpostion
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In article <521129981.180137108@troubbs.org>, Miriam_Solon@troubbs.org wrote:

> I've noticed that it's a Chicago-Jewish thing to use "with" as a postposition,
> as in:
> 
> "Can I go with?"
> 
> Does that work back to Yiddish/German?

Yup.  In that particular construction, the with would come before the go,
but in others it would come after the go.

Mach mit!  (Include yourself, take part in something)

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