Re: [Tads3] Listing Contents of Surfaces

["Mike Roberts" <mjr_@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Eric Eve" <eric.eve@harris-manchester.oxford.ac.uk> wrote:
> If you really wanted an analogue to "x is in y" <-> "y contains x" I 
> suppose
> it would be "x is on y" <-> "y bears x". But I'm not sure I'd prefer "You
> see a table (which bears a banana) here" to "You see a table (on which is a
> banana) here".
Neither would I - I think the problem is that is-on/bears doesn't have the 
nice one-to-one relationship of is-in/contains.  I don't think English has a 
verb with such a relationship with is-on, so 'on which' is probably as close 
as we can get.

--Mike

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