Officials' Pre-Game Items

rainmaker · #8 (**permalink**) Mon Mar 11, 2002, 10:43pm

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Originally posted by bob jenkins

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And I'll try to keep the words within common colloquial (oops) language :-).

Don't get too colloquial, it's kind of nice to see some real English on this board, once in a while! [/B]

I'm not sure it's "real" English.

He used "colloquial" as a noun -- I think it's only an adjective. [/B][/QUOTE]

It looks like an adjective to me, modifying "language" as it does.

I don't know about the parvenu thing: I've seen it used as an adjective in the past, in places where "they ought to know." I've seen it made into a gerund, too, but that IS, I admit, pressing it a bit far!

What I'm more concerned about is calling himself torpid. WHat in the world...?

[Edited by rainmaker on Mar 11th, 2002 at 09:46 PM]