[Xmca-l] Re: dappled

Greg Thompson greg.a.thompson@gmail.com
Tue Nov 25 07:58:30 PST 2014


​Oops, sorry, wrote that before my email updated showing me all the other
wordplay...
-greg​

On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 8:57 AM, Greg Thompson <greg.a.thompson@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Andy,
> I'm dappled by your question and I perish the thought that I couldn't
> understand a post of yours.
>
> So, I'm not sure if I know what these words you speak of "mean".
>
> -greg
>
> On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 12:00 AM, Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net> wrote:
>
>> I have a trivial question for the linguists on this list.
>> Do you have a word for words like "dappled" and "perished" (or dapple and
>> perish) which can describe only one thing (shade and rubber respectively)?
>>
>> Andy
>> --
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>>
>>
>
>
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