>>>>>I'll leave to the Dutch themselves to comment (you posted too late in the day for them so we'll wait to see).
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>>>>I am sure Peter is still awake.
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>>>You mean some guys actually go to sleep? I thought we were glued to our keyboards! :)
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>>Don't you ever sleep behind your keyboard then? <g>
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>Never managed to do that. There's only a few centimeters between the backside of the keyboard and the edge of the flat drawer on which it rests. (Yes, it rests, I type :).
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>The "behind the keyboard" probably comes from "behind the wheel", which is, IMO, also a funny syntagm. Probably comes from the reduced number of prepositions in English. In Serbian, we'd have "za tastaturom", "za volanom" - where "za" with instrumental case means "at the helm of", or "at the tool/machine". This usage of "za" makes it very different from "iza" (though it's obviously derived from it) - "iza tastature" would really mean "behind the keyboard", in the strict sense that it fell behind it, or is hidden behind it, or, generally speaking, there's a keyboard between it and the person who speaks.
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As a matter of fact, I have checked "behind the keyboard" versus "in front of the keyboard" using Google beforehand. The first one occurs more often. That's why I decided to use that one.
In Dutch, we have the same problem as the English have.
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Peter de Valença
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