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Re: verbs = nouns?

From:H. S. Teoh <hsteoh@...>
Date:Tuesday, January 9, 2001, 3:59
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 10:42:53PM -0500, E-Ching Ng wrote:

> Thanks, H. S., I was wondering if I was the only person trying to make > sense of that. I've seen Chinese "adjectives" called stative verbs, > because they do behave similarly in some ways. Chinese nouns, as far as > I know, behave completely differently from Chinese verbs.
[snip] Hmm. Do you have any specific examples of adjectives behaving like stative verbs? I can't seem to think of any... I must be missing something? T -- 2+2=4. 2*2=4. 2^2=4. Therefore, +, *, and ^ are the same operation.