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… und warum genau schreibste das hier auf …

… und warum genau schreibste das hier auf deutsch hin?

wha…?

dictionary gives me this:
boomer (Aust.) [coll.] — großes männliches Känguru (’large male kangaroo’)
boomer [tech.] — der Tieftonlautsprecher (’woofer’)
boomer [cine.] — der Tonassistent (’sound assistant’)

uh. i don’t know …
come on, man. don’t be dissing the dog. it ain’t his fault.
so what’s his name?
i know you didn’t change the rules to say u.s. citizens only. but … that’s practically what it comes down to.
europe sounds good. yeah. it doesn’t even matter if you do it in english. chomsky was here in my hometown in 2005. needless to say that i went to hear his speech … so fucking great. there were like 2000 people there.
with the new rules, only u.s. citizens can win. (unless, of course, you’d tour around the globe with your book.) that’s geographical discrimination, man.

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the internet grammar of english says that prepositions typically come before a noun

yeah, i know.
in german, it’s pretty strict. a preposition P followed by a noun phrase NP forms a prepositional phrase PP.
the reason that the resulting phrase (from P + NP) is a PP and not a NP is that P governs the following NP, or P gorverns the (grammatical) case of the following NP respectively.
Ps can follow NPs. but since PREposition suggests that it comes before the NP, those are pretty often called postpositions. (same difference, though, regarding government of the NP.)

so, maybe try to look at them at postpositions that have lost direct contact with the NP that belongs to them, but they still can see them. something like that.
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not grammatically correct.. a sentence should never end with a preposition

i couldn’t find anything supporting the claim that p-stranding is grammatically incorrect (i wasn’t really looking, though.). the internet grammar of english simply states that there are prepositions and stranded prepositions.

i’m very fond of geoffrey pullum. he put this book out, the great eskimo vocabulary hoax.
he also wrote this article which is a great read: 50 years of stupid grammar advice.
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