What is Python?

[Greg Ewing]

Ben Wolfson wrote:
> 
> Separable prefixes in German may not really count as prepositions

Indeed, and I think the situation is similar in English.
It seems to me that, e.g. "cut up" is not the verb "cut"
plus the preposition "up", but a single multi-word verb
whose meaning is distinct from "cut" on its own.

How would you rearrange the sentence "What do you want
to cut up" to avoid having "up" at the end? "Up what
do you want to cut" doesn't quite work, somehow...

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