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This is NOT using sleep as the subject of the verb deprive. Sleep-deprived is an adjective.
I never said it was the subject of a verb. I said it was a noun being used adverbially.Quote:
I am always surprised when I see the lengths to which descriptivists will go to say that something that is so plainly wrong might possibly be correct.
TEd
Nobody ever said it was easy being a descriptivist. We have to look at actual usage and work out the rules our own se'ves. We don't get no book with no easily memorized rules that we proceed to apply willy-nilly to any usage that happens to set our poor teeth on edge. And we don't have to say that it is correct; the fact of its being used and understood is proof enough. What we go to great lengths to show is how it came to be.
Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted Deprivation Bingley 10/19/05 05:20 AM Re: Deprivation Jackie 10/19/05 01:19 PM Re: Deprivation inselpeter 10/19/05 01:57 PM Re: Deprivation Faldage 10/20/05 12:45 AM Re: Deprivation Bingley 10/21/05 02:09 AM Re: Deprivation inselpeter 10/21/05 03:40 AM Re: Deprivation Homo Loquens 10/21/05 04:12 AM Re: Deprivation inselpeter 10/21/05 11:20 AM Re: Deprivation TEd Remington 10/21/05 11:47 AM Re: Deprivation inselpeter 10/21/05 11:49 AM Immobility musick 10/22/05 02:43 PM Re: Immobility sjmaxq 10/22/05 06:54 PM Re: Deprivation wsieber 10/21/05 06:30 AM Re: Deprivation Homo Loquens 10/21/05 07:30 AM Re: Deprivation Homo Loquens 10/21/05 07:33 AM Re: Deprivation Faldage 10/22/05 04:46 PM Re: Deprivation inselpeter 10/22/05 10:27 PM Re: Deprivation TEd Remington 10/22/05 11:50 PM Re: Deprivation Faldage 10/23/05 12:15 PM Re: Deprivation inselpeter 10/23/05 12:31 PM
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