Re: Creative ways to form relative clauses?

> Daniel Bowman <danny.c.bowman@...> wrote:
> Any
> creative (read: non-English and Romance language) ways to handle
> this?
You've put me in a mind to contemplate getting rid of the relative clause per se
altogether. English has been allowing, it seems increasingly, the use of long
gerund phrases as adjectival phrases (e.g., "It's a sitting on the porch
sipping tea kind of day"). Taking that one step further, analogous
constructions would be "That's the hitting me in the leg man." for "That's the
man who hit me in the leg."

You asked for creativity. ;)

-- Paul

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