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Anonymous Posted 11 years ago
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A: Where's the gas station?
B: It's over the bridge.
Is B's response natural and idiomatic?
B means to say that A can cross the bridge to get to the gas station.
  

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Is B's response natural and idiomatic? It's OK. I'd say, "It's on the other side of the bridge", pointing in the general direction A should go.

— CalifJim

  • Is B's response natural and idiomatic?
  • It's OK.
  • I'd say, "It's on the other side of the bridge", pointing in the general direction A should go.
  • CJ
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AnonymousA: Where's the gas station?B: It's over the bridge.Is B's response natural and idiomatic?
It's OK. I'd say, "It's on the other side of the bridge", pointing in the general direction A should go.

CJ
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Thank you!

When you hear B's response, would you ever think of it, in context, as meaning that the gas station is floating over hovering over the bridge, which of course doesn't make sense at all? Or does that reading simply not occur to you in context?
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In context, I would naturally interpret it to mean "on the other side of the bridge". Unless there were some very unusual circumstances involved, it wouldn't occur to me to think that "floating in the air" was intended. Now if we were talking about a balloon, it might be different.
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AnonymousWhen you hear B's response, would you ever think of it, in context, as meaning that the gas station is floating over hovering over the bridge ...?
No. Never.
Anonymousdoes that reading simply not occur to you in context?
Correct. It does not occur to me.

CJ
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