Re: Genitive Relationships again
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, March 15, 1999, 16:46 |
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John Cowan wrote:
> There is a genre of jokes which claims that English
> inflects adjectives for person (by suppletion), thus:
> I am firm, you are stubborn, he is pig-headed.
Or, people we like are "freedom fighters", people we don't like are
"terrorists".
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