Re: [romconlang] -able

On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 4:02 PM, David J. Peterson <dedalvs@...> wrote:
>  Huh.  That's very curious.  So if you had to use a verb when you
>  talked about "a road paved with bricks", or for the expression
>  "where the streets are paved with gold", what would you use?
Well, "paved with X" in general conjures an image of perfectly-smooth
streets that have X as the material used to create the smooth surface.
  So to me, the Yellow Brick Road of Oz is not "paved with yellow
brick", and bears no physical resemblance to a street "paved with
gold".  Rather, the phrase "paved with brick" implies crushing the
bricks into a paste before topping the road with them.

Fortunately, the term 'street' or 'road' by default refers to the
surface, so the general verb I would use is just "made", with "of": a
road made of bricks, a street made of gold, etc.

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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>