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| Ron Hardin |
 Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 2:23 am |
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How does the adjective get to be postpositive? A suppressed relative
clause? A truncation of ``divided against itself cannot stand?''
Its point is to produce a Gettysburg Address register. I wonder how.
Are we a newsgroup moronic?
That seems to produce a weirdly similar effect.
Time immemorial, body politic, heir apparent.
It seems to have come up in a John Edwards speech.
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| Mike |
| Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 2:50 am |
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"Ron Hardin" <rhhardin@mindspring.com> wrote in message
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Quote: How does the adjective get to be postpositive?
A participial adjective - I don't know.
Quote: It seems to have come up in a John Edwards speech.
The one where he said "We don't like you Northerners coming down here and
telling us what to do." |
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| Ron Hardin |
| Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 3:46 am |
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Mike wrote:
Quote: How does the adjective get to be postpositive?
A participial adjective - I don't know.
You can also say ``nation undivided'' but there's no verb ``undivide.''
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| Jacques Guy |
| Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 1:02 pm |
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Ron Hardin wrote:
Quote: How does the adjective get to be postpositive?
It hails from the origin superior of the language.
Like pork and veal, it hails from its half Norman.
(If it hadn't hailed from the half Norman, I would
have written "root", not "origin"). |
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