Re: THEORY: Deriving adjectives from nouns
| From: | Tom Wier <artabanos@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, June 8, 1999, 6:22 |
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Jim Grossmann wrote:
> >Well, right, of course. I thought it was fairly clear we're not
> >talking about that, though (or maybe I missed something by jumping
> >in medias res like that?).
>
> Yes, Tom, it was clear. But when I was faced with an impossible
> construction, I couldn't resist mentioning the closest possible things to it
> that I could think of.
Okay... I should probably apologize for that. I don't mean to
sound patronizing, but sometimes I do. That's a problem I'll have
to work on. ;)
> >For some reason, I don't think I could get what you have here
> >out of "nicely hippo" without some very special circumstance.
>
> Not in English, certainly. I should have made it a lot clearer that I was
> talking about a nonce-language example. [Hmmm. Is there are notation for
> nonce-examples?]
Not that I know of.
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