Re: Varon
| From: | Padraic Brown <agricola@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, January 19, 2002, 20:58 |
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Am 19.01.02, The RipperDoc yscrifef:
> > > Adjectives and adverbs are made by verbs, with no special
> > > modifications. Colours are in fact nouns ("It was black"
> > > is "It had black").
> >
> > Why? Couldn't you just have "It is (a) black" the same way you
> > have "He is a doctor." Although, "it had black" is a neat
> > way to do it. I haven't seen that before.
>
> It's just a sort of "irregularity". And I think it looks better, and, I
> didn't know any language that did have colors as nouns.
English colours _are_ nouns. (They're also adjectives, verbs
and adverbs as well, but that's another matter!)
Padraic.
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Gwerez dah, chee gwaz vaz, ha leal.
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