Re: My version

--- On Sat, 2/21/09, Andrew Jarrette <anjarrette@...> wrote:

> From: Andrew Jarrette <anjarrette@...>
> Subject: [tied] Re: My version
> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Saturday, February 21, 2009, 7:30 PM
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen"
> <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Here's another one, but later:
> > German, ca. 1970's : 'auf der Uni'
> "at the/my university"
>
> In 2004 a German exchange student to whom I spoke German
> corrected me,
> and said that I should say "an der Uni" instead
> of what I said (which
> I can't remember).
>
> > Danish, ca. 1980's: 'på uni' (note, no
> article)
> > English, 2000's 'at uni'
> >
>
> Probably British, who might be influenced by other European
> idiom.
>
> Andrew

Australians say that --or at least my friends who live there say that