Re: Linguistic quirks: beside or against myself?

Subject: Re: Linguistic quirks: beside or against myself?
From: David Neeley <dbneeley -at- oddpost -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 09:15:39 -0700 (PDT)


I concur that "against my name" would not be understood in an American context. Here, the term "against" is heavily weighted to the "contrary to" or meaning; I can't think of any examples where it might mean "opposite" without some sense of opposition in more than a spatial sense.

I don't believe it would be only the less-educated who would misunderstand this use were it to appear here.

David

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