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Re: Varon

From:Tristan Alexander McLeay <anstouh@...>
Date:Sunday, January 20, 2002, 16:06
On Sun, 20 Jan 2002, Adam Walker wrote:

a)
> The pages yellowed.
I think `yellowed' is a valid word, but not the past tense of a verb. That sentence sounds wrong, but `the pages were/had yellowed' is fine, at least to me. b)
> First, brown the meat.
I'll pay that. c)
> This fertilizer will green your lawn right up.
That also sounds wrong. `This fertiliser will make your lawn green', yes, but not that. Again, at least for me. d)
> I'll black the answers out. Then you can look.
The verb in that sentence is `to black out', not `to black'. (Note that (a) and (c) was merely to back up my earlier statement; I realise that they're valid in your dialect.) Tristan
> >From: Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...> > >Reply-To: Constructed Languages List <CONLANG@...> > >To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU > >Subject: Re: Varon > >Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2002 09:35:14 -0500 > > > >Muke Tever wrote: > >> > >>From: "Tristan Alexander McLeay" <anstouh@...> > >> > On Sat, 19 Jan 2002, Padraic Brown wrote: > >> > > >> > > English colours _are_ nouns. (They're also adjectives, verbs > >> > > and adverbs as well, but that's another matter!) > >> > > >> > How are they verbs? *He was bluing it. *She redded the chair. I guess > >>they > >> > count as adverbs is things like 'He painted it yellow'. > >> > >>"She reddened the chair", possibly. > > > >I'd say that "redden" isn't "red" used as a verb, but a verb derived from > >the adjective "red". > > > > Andreas > > > > > >_________________________________________________________________ > >Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. >