Preposition watch
Posted by Dalton48 on 08 Sep 2009 at 05:37 pm | Tagged as: Stuff, Toronto
They’re endangered.
From a BlogTO review of Te Aro:
This newish Leslieville cafe may not have a ton of tables to plunk a laptop, but the beauty of the space more than makes up for it.
What is so hard about turning it into English by adding “on which” before “plunk”, or even just “onto” after “tables”?
Hmmm. If I was a beady-eyed Grade Seven student challenged by an excellent Grade Seven teacher (such as we hope will live forever!), might reply RE “plunk” as in “# clop: make or move along with a sound as of a horse’s hooves striking the ground” ().
Hence, “to plunk a laptop” = to make the sound of clip-clop on a laptop.
So… instead of fierce attack tables, delicate typing tables.