Re: A grammer question: "associated with" or "associated to"

Subject: Re: A grammer question: "associated with" or "associated to"
From: Chris <cud -at- telecable -dot- es>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 10:24:45 +0100

Here's my guess... This isn't a question of grammar, it's a question of semantics. You would no sooner "associate to" somethig than you would "arbitrate on" it or "relate of" it. The verb associate has to do with establishing a relationship... While you can assert that X has a relationship "to" Y, you would establish a relationship of X "with" Y.
Yes, I know you could establish a relationship "between" actors, and you can establish other relationships as well. That's why we have so many words, isn't it? Associate is a word of its own, and it's used in its own way to connotate a special sort of relationship, in a special state of becoming or having been becoming (or soon to be having been becoming, etc.).

cud

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