Silencio wrote:There's little prepositional choice (and none in this case): it's almost always an agreement issue. One "pokes at," one does not "poke of."
"Johnny, stop poking of your food."
"Never poke of a hornet's nest with a stick."
"You know, middle of the afternoon, when your hunger's pokin' of ya, pokin' of ya..."
What you're missing here, though, is that there is an extra noun in the prepositional phrase. It's poking fun. I can poke fun of, poke fun at, poke fun over, poke fun around, or poke fun after or a whole host of other prepositions because of that subject agreement of poking fun. Consider the phrase "make fun of" and take the word fun out.
"Johnny, stop making of your food."
"Never make of a hornet's nest with a stick."
"You know, middle of the afternoon, when assholes are makin' of ya, makin' of ya. . ."
Now, throw that indirect object back in there, and EVERY one of those sentences agree. Strange, that.
Despite the rude an inappropriate personal attacks at me, I knew precisely what I was doing and saying and contrary to the implications made there, I'm one of the first people to admit my mistakes and do so all the time.
Normally a thread bearing personal attacks like that would be locked down, but I'd just get more crap from people claiming that I am abusing my power.
There are 10 types of people in the world.
Those who understand binary. . .
. . .and those who don't.
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