Personally I love oranges but cant stand orange juice.

  • bitjunkie@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Because prepositional phrases can have distinct definitions from those of the individual words that comprise them.

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      1 day ago

      Do those have different definitions though? If I do something ‘by purpose’, I don’t think it means anything different from doing it ‘on purpose’. What other meaning could we derive from that?