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Re: Varon

From:Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date:Saturday, January 19, 2002, 17:36
En réponse à The RipperDoc <ripperdoc@...>:

> > 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. >
French! In fact, in French any adjective can be used as a noun, including colors. I know that Arabic doesn't have a strong distinction between nouns and adjectives either. And after all, if Amerindian languages can consider numbers as verbs, and Comox can have a verb to translate 'what?', having nouns for colours is not such a big step :)) . Christophe. http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr Take your life as a movie: do not let anybody else play the leading role.

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