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[ILUG-Social] grammar

[ILUG-Social] grammar

Robert Elliott robert.elliott at alphyra.ie
Wed Jun 13 15:46:10 IST 2001


kevin lyda wrote:

> on a semi-related note kenn and i discussed words yesterday over indian
> - went a bit to hard on the chillies, btw.  oof.  anyway does anyone
> know the verb form of grammar?  as in, "he grammared quite well."
> that sounds wrong, kenn's suggestion was grammaticate, which i liked.
> also, a verb for vocabulary - vocabularize (or vocabularise, whatever).
D'you mean his grammar was good? Or he used grammar in an exceptional
way? Why d'you fucking americans insist that there has to be a
concomitant verb? What's wrong with saying 'his use of grammar was
acceptable'?
-- 
|Robert Elliott                          |robert at alphyra.ie        |
|Systems Administrator, Alphyra Group    |                         |
|http://www.alphyra.ie                   |http://robertelliott.org |




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