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Loki:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 03 Jun 2013, 21:15 ---Come to think of it, why do English speakers use "from" in reference to someone's home? Logically "from" should mean your next-to-last location.
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I beg to disagree. You can define the relation "X is from Y" as equivalent to "Y is the initial location of X".
By the way, not only English speakers do that, German does this too.
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 03 Jun 2013, 21:15 ---Come to think of it, why do English speakers use "from" in reference to someone's home? Logically "from" should mean your next-to-last location.
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From suggests a spacial relationship, but has no implication of time - that is added by other words. Thus:
Where have you come from? [just now]
Where did you come from? [also just now]
Where do you come from? [originally]
Where are you from? [also originally]
The key thing seems to be the tense of the verb; using the present talks about a continuing property that you have - your origin - whereas using the past indicates somewhere you have been but are no longer are - where you last were.
dreadman:
I am from the kitchen. (making breakfast - poached eggs on toast fk yeah!)
The kitchen in question is located within Newcastle, Australia.
Kookaburra's are laughing at us as i type this.
Kugai:
At least they have a sense of humor.
Nikolai:
North America
USA
Colorado
Colorado Springs!
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