Timeline for (How) can I use a color as an adverb?
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| Oct 22 at 14:16 | comment | added | user8356 | "...we see through a glass darkly" -- example of a word typically an adjective ("dark") used adverbly -- from the Bible. | |
| Oct 22 at 11:58 | comment | added | Chronocidal | @Hearth while "highlighted red text" would make clear the other case: that the text is both red and highlighted. (In any case, the issue here is that the verb "highlighted" indicates the presence/creation of a noun "highlight" — and "red" applies to that noun, not to the verb creating it. It's the difference between a "rough cut log" and a "roughly cut log". One refers to the manner in which the action was performed, and the other refers to the state of the (in this case, physical) result/output of the action.) | |
| Oct 22 at 10:03 | comment | added | Narasimham | Her eyes caught the letters, bold and reddened.. | |
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| Oct 21 at 15:52 | comment | added | Lambie | What exactly do you mean by highlighted: with a felt-tipped pen or printed? What caught your eye, the word that has been marked with a felt-tipped pen IN red OR printed in red? And I just don't get why in red doesn't work. Can you explain? | |
| Oct 21 at 8:49 | comment | added | Stuart F | reddened is an adjective. You could try reddenedly but I think some people would raise an eyebrow disturbedly. | |
| Oct 21 at 8:38 | comment | added | mcalex | hu? Nobody has suggested reddened? | |
| Oct 21 at 7:37 | answer | added | JK2 | timeline score: 8 | |
| Oct 21 at 4:29 | comment | added | Peter | @Hearth, agreed. Also, I believe that taking out the hyphen would not change the way it is normally understood. However, taking out the hyphen makes it possible to argue for a particular deliberate misunderstanding of the phrase. | |
| Oct 21 at 0:04 | comment | added | Hearth | @Peter "the red-highlighted text" would make it clear that it's highlighted in red. | |
| Oct 20 at 22:17 | answer | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | timeline score: 9 | |
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| Oct 20 at 7:51 | comment | added | Peter | I would be happy with using "the red highlighted text" to mean "the text highlighted in red". While technically it might mean that the text is red and highlighted in some other colour, I would not normally understand it that way unless a comma was added after "red". | |
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| Oct 20 at 0:39 | comment | added | DjinTonic | See, for example, bluely (adv.) and redly (adv.) in the OED with their citations and the examples in Google Books. You might quarrel with the uses, but you won't be shadow boxing. Examples date far back and continue. I especially like "The barefooted, bluely attired Lovegrove" from 2007. | |
| Oct 19 at 23:09 | history | edited | tchrist♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 19 at 21:47 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | @christ No, 'the redly highlighted word' is not ungrammatical, not opaque, but also not idiomatic. Agreed. But I'd say 'red-highlighted' is pushing it, too. // Compound adjectives of the adj + past participle form have been covered, including 'how should red- and blue-coloured kingfisher' be hyphenated? and especially Compound adjectives and -ed/. | |
| Oct 19 at 20:19 | comment | added | tchrist♦ | @EdwinAshworth Because I don't believe that mud-splattered trousers have been splattered "mudly", only muddily, just like star-lit scenes haven't been lit "starly", only starrily. You can't form manner-adverbs out of nouns simply by adding -ly since that would produce only an adjective, like man > manly does. But colors may be some sort of niche word-class of their own, depending on your model. | |
| Oct 19 at 19:58 | answer | added | Greybeard | timeline score: 3 | |
| Oct 19 at 18:57 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | @tchrist In what way? OP mentions 'red' and concedes 'I should have checked ...'. // Any workarounds are writing advice. | |
| Oct 19 at 18:44 | comment | added | tchrist♦ | @EdwinAshworth I'm afraid this is a very wrongly-barked-up tree. | |
| Oct 19 at 18:39 | answer | added | tchrist♦ | timeline score: 9 | |
| Oct 19 at 18:19 | comment | added | schtandard | @EdwinAshworth Damn, I should have checked more colors. I had looked up and failed to find 'violetly' (and thought it sounded weird) and immediately gave up and came here to ask.. | |
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| Oct 19 at 18:01 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | 'Redly'. M-W; Collins; Wiktionary .... It's probably a rare example; adding -ly to colour adjectives isn't very productive. *Pucely. *Purplely. *Vermilionly. | |
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