Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!news.daionet.gr.jp!news.yamada.gr.jp!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!nntp.gol.com!203.216.70.8.MISMATCH!not-for-mail From: B Robson Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: train driver Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 11:55:25 +0900 Organization: FusionGOL - Global Online Japan Lines: 21 Message-ID: References: <426cdcd2$0$4657$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au> <1114449838.806384.92000@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com> <1114541431.089966.138700@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 203-216-000-091.engineering.gol.ad.jp Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: nnrp.gol.com 1114570526 606 203.216.0.91 (27 Apr 2005 02:55:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@gol.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 02:55:26 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050105 Debian/1.7.5-1 X-Accept-Language: en, ja In-Reply-To: <1114541431.089966.138700@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:26850 John W. wrote: > > "Sorrowing families arrived at a gymnasium that has been turned into a > make-shift morgue to claim the bodies of the dead." > > Sorrowing? I'm not sure I've ever heard that word used that way. > It's meaning is obvious so of course it's a word. However the past tense is usually frowned upon, sorrowing is OK but sorrowed isn't. In Sepponia any word can take any part of a sentence. Verbs can be nounified and verberization of nouns is quite common. Nouns can be used adverbily and recently it's use is adjective. "Winningest" is a particular favourite, although I've never heard it said, "dehostilification" is another.