Subj : Re: some stuff To : Roy Witt From : alexander koryagin Date : Thu Jun 28 2018 12:53:14 From: alexander koryagin Hi, Roy Witt! I read your message from 27.06.2013 11:10 ak>> A car driver knocked down a pedestrian at a pedestrian crossing. ak>> The driver to the pedestrian: "Oh, you are lucky today! I am a ak>> doctor!" The pedestrian: "But you a not lucky. I am a lawyer." RW> A car driver knocked down a pedestrian in a pedestrian crosswalk. BTW, I am often confused about prepositions "at" and "in" in cases when I tell about crosswalks and squares. For instance, I understand, that a street is something long and it is not a place, is not a point. So I use "in", for example: There is a man in the street. But what if I tell about a point, a place, where something has happened? Can I use "at"? IMHO it is quite logical, especially when I tell about the place: "Where is John?" "He is at the market" "Where is his monument?" "It is at Trafalgar Square." ak>> The most reliable shelters against Russia's nuclear rockets are ak>> under American banks. RW> The most reliable shelter against Russian nuclear bombs are in the RW> vaults of Georgian banks. Where are they? In Georgia, the Caucasus? 8-} RW> Russian rockets would be intercepted and destroyed by American RW> satellites using rocket killer lasers from space. Can we have in Russia laser killers for the American satellites? ;) ak>> If you want your guests to be off, ask them for money. If you want ak>> them to stay, ask for advice. RW> If you want your guests to leave, ask them for money. If you want RW> them to stay, ask them for advice. I wonder, maybe "be off" is more rude, and therefore is more apt when it applied to annoying guests? ;) Bye, Roy! Alexander Koryagin fido7.english-tutor 2013 --- ifmail v.2.15dev5.4 * Origin: NPO RUSnet InterNetNews site (2:5020/400) .