MSGID: 2:221/6.0 65d5ce50
REPLY: 2089.englisht@1:2320/105 2a39ee46
PID: SmapiNNTPd/Linux/IPv6 kco 20240209
NOTE: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101
Thunderbird/31.7.0.
CHRS: LATIN-1 2
TZUTC: 0200
TID: hpt/lnx 1.9 2024-02-05

Hi, Mike Powell!
I read your message from 20.02.2024 14:45

 AH>>> Depends on what the fence was made of. I think Gleb has a point
 AH>>> in that this announcement may have been written on a scrap of
 AH>>> cardboard which the protagonist attached to the fence using
 AH>>> whatever came readily to hand.... :-)

 ak>> IMHO when you say "to post" it implies the mail service. Give me
 ak>> an example if am wrong. At the very least the man could nail his
 ak>> message. :)

 MP> It can mean that. I think that meaning is more often used in
 MP> British English than here in America.

 MP> It can also mean to attach a message to a physical cork bulletin
 MP> board, wall, fencepost, telephone pole, etc., such as "I posted a
 MP> for sale flyer on the break room bulletin board" or "I posted the
 MP> lost pet flyers to several phone poles in the neighborhood."

I see. And indeed any noun in English can be converted into a verb. So, if we
have a lamp post we can post a message. ;-)

Bye, Mike!
Alexander Koryagin
english_tutor 2024

---
 * Origin: news://news.fidonet.fi (2:221/6.0)
SEEN-BY: 1/19 15/0 16/0 19/37 90/1 105/81 106/201 123/130 128/260
SEEN-BY: 129/305 135/225 142/104 153/757 7715 154/10 203/0 218/700
SEEN-BY: 218/840 221/1 6 360 226/30 227/114 229/110 112 113 206 307
SEEN-BY: 229/317 426 428 470 664 700 240/5832 266/512 280/5003 282/1038
SEEN-BY: 291/111 301/1 320/119 219 319 2119 322/757 335/364 341/66
SEEN-BY: 341/234 342/200 396/45 423/81 460/58 712/848 5020/400 1042
SEEN-BY: 5075/35
PATH: 221/6 1 320/219 229/426