Re: Varon
| From: | Padraic Brown <agricola@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, January 20, 2002, 1:18 |
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Am 20.01.02, Tristan Alexander McLeay yscrifef:
> > English colours _are_ nouns. (They're also adjectives, verbs
> > and adverbs as well, but that's another matter!)
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> 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'.
When transitive, to 'make blue'; when intrans., to 'become blue'.
I even looked in the dictionary to make sure I wasn't just
belying an ideosyncrasy of my idiolect!
> Tristan
Padraic.
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