Re: English question

Andreas Johansson wrote:


>Nik Taylor wrote:
>>
>>Padraic Brown wrote:
>> > > > > "He felt good."
>> > It's like "She listens good", etc.
>>
>>"She listens good" is impossible in my idiolect.  I've certainly heard
>>forms like that, but it sounds uneducated to me.
Agree.  As a sort of threat, maybe:  (Mother to child?) You listen to me,
and listen good!

 I'd say "She listens
>>well".  For that matter, would you call "old" an adverb in "He felt
>>old"?  It can't be used as an adverb anywhere else (*"he ran old").
>
>You don't have "he looks old"? Or would you consider that "old" to be an
>adjective?
I'd equate this with "he seems old", where it's definitely an adjective.  I
suppose it's a transform of [he looks [(as if) he is old]]-- though in the
sense that it answers "How does he look?" it's sort of adverbial too.
>
>(To my non-native ears, "he ran old" sounds like a contraction of "he ran
>while being old". Any native that feels the same?)
>
My interp:  he runs like an old man.  I've been accused of "dressing old".
Hmmph. In Florida (Nik can confirm this) many people might "drive old"
(except they are in fact old-- the little people who drive their Lincoln
behemoths in the fast lane at 25mph, usually with the turn signal blinking)

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