Theiling Online    Sitemap    Conlang Mailing List HQ   

Re: English colour verbs (was: Adjectives, Adverbs, Ad...)

From:Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
Date:Tuesday, March 16, 2004, 20:03
On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 07:23:58PM +0000, Tim May wrote:
> I'm not sure I can think of an example where I'd find "to purple" natural.
I read it all the time in descriptive prose. "He purpled with anger", etc. I've only ever seen it in intransitive form; I would find it weird to read about someone purpling something. But only a little, since you can verb just about anything in English. :) -Mark