Re: A grammer question: "associated with" or "associated to"

[Chris <cud -at- telecable -dot- es>]

Here's my guess...  This isn't a question of grammar, it's a question of 
semantics.  You would no sooner "associate to" somethig than you would 
"arbitrate on" it or "relate of" it.  The verb associate has to do with 
establishing a relationship...  While you can assert that X has a 
relationship  "to" Y, you would establish a relationship of X  "with" Y.  

Yes, I know you could establish a relationship "between" actors, and you 
can establish other relationships as well.  That's why we have so many 
words, isn't it?  Associate is a word of its own, and it's used in its 
own way to connotate a special sort of relationship, in a special state 
of becoming or having been becoming (or soon to be having been becoming, 
etc.).

cud

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