atw: Re: Into Linguistic semantics.

>Hello all. I was wondering about this. I have written "... putting new
files into the course resources folder."
>I debated with myself whether it could be "...putting new files in to the
course folder."

"Into" carries the sense of motion towards, while "in" doesn't. This
accounts for "we swam in the ocean" (we just swam about there) vs. "we swam
into the ocean" (from a bay or river). So the one to use is probably "into"
rather than "in". The option "in to" can't be right because you end up with
too many prepositions.

Parenthetically, this is different from "log in to something" because "log
in" is a verb of some sort of compound nature with a meaning different from
the verb "log", meaning write a log or perhaps chop up trees. So why not
"log in into something"? That's for another discussion.


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