Re: Most obscure vocabulary award.
- From: "Marc Adler" <marc.adler@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 12 Oct 2005 00:08:25 -0700
Paul Blay wrote:
> Of course productive in the /language/ sense means
> something like "being able to be used with other (new) words"
> doesn't it? Like -ing is productive because Google -> Googling
That's what I meant. So while 濃藍色 might be rare, 藍色 certainly
isn't. 濃- is just a rarely-used prefix, as is 淡- (which I really
hadn't thought of) that Bart mentioned.
Marc
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