Re: OT: ago

Trying to shoehorn an individual, unique word into
some artifical category like "adjective" or "adverb"
just underscores how arbitrary those categories are,
and how poorly they fit the words of a living
languages. (It's all exceptions, I tell you, and no
rules. (At least no universally applicable rules.))

So I propose we create a new category and call "ago"
an "agoative". Now we can coin a new agoative for the
future so the category won't be so sparsely populated.
I propose the agoative "athen" to indicate some future
time. As in "I'm going to Scotland 3 weeks athen." or
"Long athen, when you're all grown up, ...".

All in favor, raise your right hand. Hold 'em high
now, so I can count them all.

--gary

Replies