"Shaven"

[Joel S. Berson]

The clean shavin men and women are simply hygienic barbers.

And if Larry had examined "smooth shavin men" and "women", they would
have been simply glib, persuasive, talkative barbers.

(I restrained myself after Larry's message previous to this, but
having been fed a set-up a second time, I couldn't resist.)
Joel

At 6/25/2012 02:39 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>On Jun 25, 2012, at 2:10 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>
> >
> > On Jun 25, 2012, at 1:34 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
> >
> >> At 6/25/2012 10:52 AM, Laurence Horn wrote:
> >>> Maybe so, but there are more than a few hits for "clean shavin'"
> >>> (with or without apostrophe), suggesting a reanalysis from a perhaps
> >>> moribund perfect participle.
> >>
> >> But are these "the clean shavin' Gilette Atra", or similar?
> >>
> >> Joel
> >
> > No, they seem to describe the patient rather than the agent or
> instrument.  We have clean shavin men, a clean shavin look, clean
> shavin Dad, and so on.  And while there are 19,000+ hits for "clean
> shaving razor", there's only 1 hit for "clean shavin razor".
> >
> > LH
> >
>
>P.S.  To show the contrast more dramatically, compare these g-hit results:
>
>clean shaving razor:   19,100
>clean shavin razor:             1
>
>clean shaving men:       5.430
>clean shavin men:     132,000
>
>clean shaving women:       10
>clean shavin women:   84,000
>
>LH
>
>
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