Re: OT: ago

You know, rather than invent a new word (yeah, I know, ironic
considering the list name), why not use the existing term, namely
"postposition"? Incidentally, both prepositions and postpositions are
part of a larger family of words called "particles".

F.


Gary Shannon wrote:
> 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
>
>