Re: Nouns, verbs, adjectives... and why they're pointless

Christophe Grandsire wrote:

> And what about Mandarin, that makes no
> syntactic distinction between nouns and verbs (only a semantic
> distinction),
Eh? AFAIK the distinction between nouns and verbs is more rigid
than in English (where every noun can be verbed, and many verbs
can be nounified with an appropriate suffix).

--
John Cowan      http://www.ccil.org/~cowan              cowan@ccil.org
        You tollerday donsk?  N.  You tolkatiff scowegian?  Nn.
        You spigotty anglease?  Nnn.  You phonio saxo?  Nnnn.
                Clear all so!  'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)