Re: USAGE: "Laughingly":What part of speech is it?

Tom Wier wrote:

> Well, if you look at it, that just makes it a noun, right? I mean, if it serves
> nosyntactic function, then it could only serve to change the part of speech :
> the gerund nominalizes the verb, a deverbitive noun (yes, that term is actually
> used in the literature).
I was thinking of having part-of-speech endings
ala Esperanto, -i for verb, -a for adjective, etc.
Then participles seemed a problem; one might use
-ia to show something like an active participle,
but what about the passive? Etc:

-i      active transitive verb (employ)
-u      passive transitive verb
-o      plain old noun
-e      plain old adverb
-a      plain old adjective

-ia     active participle (employing)
-io     agent noun (employer)
-ua     passive participle (employed)
-uo     resultive noun (employee)

The system doesn't cover enough cases, though;
what is "the act of employing = employment" etc.
And though -i and -u combine well with the others,
-ae -ao -eo and such would not sound so nice.