Re: [inform] shouldn't "get out of" be in the grammar.h?


Fri, 8 Dec 1995 12:53:40 GMT

>>>>> "Tim" == Tim Middleton <ab651@freenet.durham.org> writes:

> I find myself tacking a Extend "get" * "out" "of" noun -> Exit;

> in all my files... it seems to me isn't it a fairly common
> statement? For example in the Toyshop to say "get out of the car",
> and so on.

I think you're right.

> Then of course there is "get off OF the chair"... perhaps the rest
> of the world doesn't use the term "of"??

I'd say "get off the chair". Perhaps this is another of those US/UK
things, but "get off of the chair" sounds strange to me.

Perhaps there should be a general convention for getting into/onto
things and getting off/out of things? I remember spending some time
guessing the verb in The Pawn (I think), where "dismount" was the only
word that would work to get off the horse.

How about "dismount" to get off [of] a chair or out of a car?

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Bruce                   Institute of Advanced Scientific Computation
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