Working hard on my #hebrew #prepositions. Never done no #grammar at school - seriously. Can't get me head round em. Flippin heck. They are well hard gor blimey so they are.

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> The original BASIC has only 16 verbs or 'operators' (come, get, give, go, keep, let, make, put, seem, take, be, do, have, say, see, send, along with may and will), plus 20 'directives' (prepositions and particles), conceiving of verbs as 'directional actions':

https://web.archive.org/web/20081204112933/http://www.hltmag.co.uk/sep05/mart05.htm#C5
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I get that prepositions are not always used in a simple one to one correspondence with their immediate meanings (looking at you, na in Slavic languages)

But why do Americans say that an organisation is based "out of" a place, when it seems to mean that their buildings and all their people are "in" that place? Maybe the implication is that they are based there, but go elsewhere from time to time?

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Ever see this chart on the Greek prepositions? Cool. If you're not the chap in the chart.

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