Stormy Daniels
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- Mar 19, 2018
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Anyone of them use "monkey up"?
You'd have to be lower than a 3rd grade education in language arts to think that substituting one preposition for another could so drastically change the meaning of a phrase so that one is a racist dog whistle while the other is just regular speech. Prepositions are nearly interchangeable. In fact, English is abnormal among languages in that it contains an unusual diversity of prepositions (or, to be more accurate, adpositions). Most languages have a more narrow range of general adpositions whose exact meaning relies on context. Despite English having so many adpositions context is sill the predominant factor in their usage and meaning, with tradition and convention being the second factor. Textbook definitions for adpositions is the lowest ranking factor in determining the meaning or correctness of their usage.