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Re: Personal adjectives (was: Fruitful typos (was: Vulgar Latin))

From:daniel andreasson <daniel.andreasson@...>
Date:Sunday, January 23, 2000, 0:38
> 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 have a real tongue twister in Swedish. _vaestkustskt_ which is the adjective of 'west coast'. All of '-stskt' at the end has to be pronounced. Try to say that ten times in a row! :) Daniel