Re: USAGE: 'born'
From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
Date: | Thursday, May 10, 2001, 0:12 |
David Peterson wrote:
> It certainly does mean "attractive", and I don't think any English allows
> the second usage. Unless, of course, the sentence before it is "I don't know
> what the city's...", or something like that.
But, look at the following sentence "There may be arguments as to what
it's becoming". That interpretation makes perfect sense to me. I might
not use it, but it makes sense. I suppose it could be a pun of some
sort, but that would be the only way that that interpretation would make
sense to me.
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