Re: Active again.

Sally Caves scripsit:

> il korma kwecyn. "The pig cooks."  Analogous with "the shirt smells," "the
> jacket wears well," and "the soup that eats like a meal."  [That phrase on
> certain chunky soup cans bothered me.  Soup isn't a meal?]
I think that soup is generally reckoned *part* of a meal, and that the
point of the slogan is that this soup is so hearty as to constitute a
complete meal all by itself.

--
John Cowan           http://www.ccil.org/~cowan              cowan@ccil.org
To say that Bilbo's breath was taken away is no description at all.  There
are no words left to express his staggerment, since Men changed the language
that they learned of elves in the days when all the world was wonderful.
        --_The Hobbit_