double whammy

[Herb Stahlke]

Could "friendly remind" be intended as a compound verb?


On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 9:14 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

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> OK, I know we're up to the wazoo in cites of back-formed verbs.  But =
> this one (last line below) still struck me as interesting, partly =
> because it was addressed to linguists by (presumably) linguists (the =
> =46rom line is linguist at linguist.org) and partly because of the modifier =
> involved; for me, "friendly" is not a possible adverb, so it remains an =
> adjective even when what it modifies has back-formed itself into a verb. =
>    (In fact, I've already registered, so I didn't need to be friendly =
> reminded.)
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> LH
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