Re: Question about a grammatical term

--- Christophe Grandsire
<christophe.grandsire@...> wrote:

> Another analysis of the examples which could be
> valid is to consider the first
> part of the compounds as an adjective, which
> qualifies thus the second noun.
Looks good on the surface, but (at least _this_)
English speakers probably wouldn't understand that
first word as an adjective. They'd understand them as
two nouns together that form a single idea.

Thus, water cooler isn't the same as green stick -
it's not a cooler that's water. It's a single entity
that chills a certain liquid beverage. At best, they
might think of it as a 'cooler of water'.

> Christophe.
Padraic.


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raps il tenós mathin la ngouerma;
     mays comez le nces il luchets le secund.

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