> What a language cannot distinguish between noun and adjective! In modern Hebrew the same word can be an adjective, a noun and a verb in the present tense.
As a native Anglophone, I always found it strange that other languages assign gender to inanimate objects, that sometimes two words referring to the same object have different genders and that sometimes words referring to people have surprising genders. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of R.S. [[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2020 10:14 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Any shop use UNIX in a production job? It's pleonasm. BTW: In Poland we also call it "masło maślane". It is hard to translate since masło is butter - noun (substantive). And maślane is butter - but adjective. What a language cannot distinguish between noun and adjective! English has definitely to many overloaded words. ;-) Now it's time to insert NIC card into ATM machine and read its VIN number. -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland W dniu 13.04.2020 o 18:06, Bob Bridges pisze: > Like talking about a VIN number or an ATM machine. It could be worse, > though; I once heard someone refer (really!) to an "automatic ATM machine". > > --- > Bob Bridges, [email protected], cell 336 382-7313 > > /* Another reason why creative individuals prefer to work at home, as opposed > to an office, is that when you need to scratch yourself, you don't have to > sneak behind the copying machine and settle for a hasty grope. 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