Timeline for Difference between "I'm in the school" and "I'm in school"
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| Oct 23, 2014 at 11:38 | comment | added | Mitch | Also on that note, I've often seen "I'm in school" to literally mean "I'm inside the school building". In this case it's the answer to "Where are you?" when the asker is aware of what school you're talking about | |
| Oct 22, 2014 at 21:31 | comment | added | ruakh | This is not necessarily true. "I'm in the school" is a perfectly normal way to say that you attend the school being referred to. (For example, if X tells Y, "you should ask someone in the school", Z can easily interpose, "I'm in the school" (meaning "ask me!"), whether or not (s)he is literally in the school building at the time.) | |
| Oct 22, 2014 at 18:32 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | This is true, but curiously I find I'm inclined to assign precisely the opposite connotations to "I'm in [the] church". | |
| Oct 22, 2014 at 18:00 | vote | accept | Ice Girl | ||
| Oct 22, 2014 at 16:15 | history | answered | oerkelens | CC BY-SA 3.0 |