Re: [romconlang] -able

Mark:
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That would be a perfectly valid generalization, but a meaningless one
IML, where the verb "to pave" implies "with asphalt".  Laying down
concrete or bricks or what have you is not "paving".  For instance,
paving the road to Hell with good intentions has always created in my
mind a vision of those intentions being poured into a machine and
coming out as a mystical variety of blacktop.
 >>

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?

I should mention that I have your definition as a secondary
definition.  For example, I remember when a friend of mine
and I went to visit my family in Mexico, and I was excited because
the roads were paved, and mentioned it.  In that context, there's
no question regarding what the roads were paved with.

-David
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