Re: Where is tsukejie?

>>> I find the use of "suggestion" in the English
>>> "my suggestion is that we go to school"
>>> highly suspect.
>>
>> I used the following definition of "suggestion".
>> "an idea or a plan that you mention for sb
>> else to think about"
>
> "My suggestion is that we go to school"
> Why would it need suggesting?
> 1. School pupils etc. are expected to go to
> school andhence no suggestion is required.
> 2. People without obvious connection to school -
> - why would it be suggested they go to school?
>
> Not that there is a difference between "go to
> school" (= attend classes at school) and "go to
> the school". If it was the latter "My suggestion
> is that we go to the school" then I would have
> had no objection to the sentence.

It was the act of travelling to a certain place
called "school" that was my intention. Perhaps i
missed the "the" in there. My bad, then.

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Vanligen
Konrad
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