Re: Birth of a no va--not?

[RonButters at AOL.COM]

In a message dated 1/20/06 12:35:41 AM, laurence.horn at YALE.EDU writes:


> he
> >"-Y" suffix is so ambiguous, that the connection between TRUTHINESS and
> >TRUTHY is opaque.
> >
> Is the connection between a noun "Xiness" and an adjective "Xy" ever
> really opaque, if the latter actually exists?
>

Maybe it would have been better to say "relatively opaque" or even "deeply
opaque"--see "opaque" as an adjective that (like most things in life) is a
continuum and not a descriptor of binariness--a matter of opaqueyness, as it were.

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