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arrive to a party- is it possible to use the preposition to?

 
 
Reply Thu 14 Sep, 2006 02:49 pm
Is it possible to say: when you arrive to a party what do you do?
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CalamityJane
 
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Reply Thu 14 Sep, 2006 02:53 pm
Proposition yes, but not "to". You'll arrive at a party.
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Setanta
 
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Reply Thu 14 Sep, 2006 02:53 pm
No. In American usage at least, one would say "arrive at a party." You can go to a party, but when you get there, you have arrived at the party.
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CalamityJane
 
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Reply Thu 14 Sep, 2006 02:55 pm
I guess I was ahead of myself. You can get propositioned at a party
but actually I meant to say preposition.
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Setanta
 
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Reply Thu 14 Sep, 2006 02:56 pm
I didn't notice that at first . . . damn, i missed a wonderful opportunity to have some fun at your expense . . .
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CalamityJane
 
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Reply Thu 14 Sep, 2006 03:07 pm
You'll find other opportunities to do that Laughing
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Shapeless
 
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Reply Thu 14 Sep, 2006 03:27 pm
CalamityJane wrote:
You'll arrive at a party.


While we're on the topic of sex: in French, "j'arrive" is sometimes used in place of "je viens" (I'm coming or I'm about to come).
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Asherman
 
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Reply Thu 14 Sep, 2006 04:47 pm
I would write:

What do you do when you arrive at a party?
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contrex
 
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Reply Thu 21 Sep, 2006 12:44 pm
Shapeless wrote:
CalamityJane wrote:
You'll arrive at a party.


While we're on the topic of sex: in French, "j'arrive" is sometimes used in place of "je viens" (I'm coming or I'm about to come).


Yes, but neither "j'arrive" nor "je viens" mean "I am having an orgasm". The verb for that is jouir. So it would be je jouis.

Using the verb "to come" to mean "have an orgasm" is idiomatic English, and idioms don't usually translate word-for-word. Incidentally, how I hate that awful word "cum". God only knows where it originated.
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CalamityJane
 
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Reply Thu 21 Sep, 2006 02:12 pm
"cum" is latin for "with" - like magna cum laude, but how it arrived at
the orgasm scene, I don't know either.

Incidentially, in German we use the same term as in English:
"Ich komme" (I come) referring to having an orgasm. Probably originated
from the German language anyways....
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Shapeless
 
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Reply Thu 21 Sep, 2006 02:52 pm
contrex wrote:
Yes, but neither "j'arrive" nor "je viens" mean "I am having an orgasm".


Their literal definitions have nothing to do with orgasms, certainly, but they are slang terms for having an orgasm. They appear on French TV all the time.
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