Originally Posted By: Alex Williams
Originally Posted By: tsuwm
>So unless somebody can show me a usage that is akin to saying "Get out," "Go west," or "Drive south" then I'm unconvinced of its claim to adverbial status.

"What shall we do with the artifacts we found?"
"Leave them in situ."


Okay, I can accept that if it is meant to be equivalent as "Leave them there." And yet if you said "Leave them in that place" it would just be a plain old preposition.

As for the Catalan, well...


Wrong traslation, I think...

you can say I enjoyed the concert in situ; that is you were in the concert when the concert was playing (right time AND place). You didn't watch it on TV or in Youtube... although you were watching it at the right time.