Re: English colour verbs (was: Adjectives, Adverbs, Ad...)
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, March 16, 2004, 20:03 |
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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