Re: Personal adjectives (was: Fruitful typos (was: Vulgar Latin))
| From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, January 22, 2000, 20:38 |
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Raymond Brown scripsit:
> We don't readily form adjectives from modern proper name in English -
> Raymondian, Raymondine, Raymondic, Raymondical???? Nah - none of them'll
> do. 'Raymondish' might be possible, but it'd have the meaning "somewhat
> like R." - and such adjectives often implies deprecation.
We form them when we need them: Chomskyan, Kafkaesque.
But the suffix used isn't very predictable.
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