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Your argument is persuasive in the examples you give, Stupot

I guess you're ignoring me completely now, as I've given the same kind of examples, but hey I'll keep going anyway...

Is it simply down to the frequency of usage, and if I could presuade (in theory) thousands of people or maybe a couple of famous authors to use bow as an adjective frequently then it would become a valid adjective?

You're entering a new ball park now, SSH. Naturally, if people started to use "bow" as an adjective, it would become one. Language is what you make it.

Then in the end you could say "the line I just drew is bower than yours" and "My house has the bowest roof of all the houses in my block" and "I don't like this street, it's too bow"

But right now we're not there yet - as we perceive "bow" now, it's not an adjective. Actually, that's the only way I can explain it; it can't be used as a stand alone adjective (only as a modifier in compounds - but so can virtually any noun) and hence it isn't an adjective, end of story.

PS: also...

No, I don't think so. Since one apparently doesn't have to explain, I'll leave it at that.

I think you're taking this a bit too much as some kind of debating competition. I'm not pretending to know the English language better than you (as a non-native I know I don't), so let's not be childish. I think the "are all nouns adjectives"-question is rather relevant in this context.

Oh boy...I'm spending all my coffee breaks the exact same way I spend the time between them...talking grammar  

I guess that we also have to accept that for all your condescending tone and supposed expertise you're still unable to answer what rule it is that bow was supposedly breaking other than having some unspecified "inherent qualities".

SSH well I'm sorry but I've really really tried.

Maybe you could consult some other grammarian or language teacher whom you trust better and get a proper explanation, as apparently I don't cut it.

Until then, it would be interesting to hear you address this question I've asked several times by now - is every noun an adjective? Because virtually every noun can be used as you have used "bow", however you have dodged this question every time.

but "his legs were bow" features in  Lorna Doone

This is the only relevant argument you've come up with so far, so let's just say you're right.
(Even though noone born after the industrial revolution would actually make such an utterance)

I guess we just have to accept that you regard every noun as an adjective and move on...

SSH, how do you respond to this

What about collar? You can say collar bone, is that an adjective since it modifies bone? Or wait, you can say four legged, so I guess four is also an adjective?

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The problem is that with wordclasses, you need to look at the word's inherent qualities. Sure, you can put bow before stuff to modify it or classify it, and you can also use it with adjectives or nouns to create compounds. It doesn't mean that bow in itself is an adjective, because it can't describe any arbitrary noun.

Purple, big, small, attractive etc work as standalone adjectives - you can put them in front of any noun (it won't always make sense, but it won't turn out ungrammatical). Like a purple curtain and a small car but also a purple idea which doesn't necessarily make sense, but is still a grammatical phrase.

You can't say "I saw a bow sofa yesterday" or "the road is very bow" to indicate that something has a curved shape.

Oi, not really my taste, but great job anyways...
Much too melodramatic music and narration, especially when the screen is just showing a girl doing mundane stuff like looking at things and chatting with people.

Still looking forward to the finished product

"Few steps from the main body of the villa is a very romantic cottage for two people where you will find a dining room/kitchen, a sofa bed and LCD satellite TV set, in addition to one double twin bedroom (can become a double king) with ensuite bathroom with Jacuzzi bathtub."

dibs

SSH, "mean" and "abstract" are perfect adjectives (and the other classes too btw, good work there )

It troubles me a bit that you don't recognise the very simple rules that describe the wordclass of adjectives. There's nothing esoteric about how bow in "bow tie" and "bow lifeboat" simply isn't an adjective!

What about collar? You can say collar bone, is that an adjective since it modifies bone? Or wait, you can say four legged, so I guess four is also an adjective?

Its analgous to someone saying that there are three forms of matter (solid, liquid, gas) and then a physicist then coming along and saying no, what about plasma and Boseâ€"Einstein condensates. All very well and true, but you also have to accept that in the world of normal people there is a simpler model that uses some of the same terminology differently to specialists. That model is not necessarily wrong but there may be contrdictions between the simple and complex models.

This is all analogous to you not willing to accept that you're wrong

Ali, not more than "deck" would be adjectival when you put it before things that pertain to the deck of said ship.

Is "dog" an adjective just because it can determine "leash"?

Sorry, SSH, but those are in no way adjectives.
Tuomas and Stupot are absolutely right, so just trust us on this one

I think the ascii-adventure Castle Adventure deserves a remake.
It was on my family's first PC back in 86-87 and me and my father played it with much excitement. As a boy I dreamed of playing it with proper graphics.

Pardon my ignorance, but how is bow an adjective?

I've come across far too many chat simulators that have been "taught" by random people just typing obscenities. I think this one works fairly well.

Nice little excerpt from mitsuku:

me: what do you do for a living?
her: I'm paid to chat
me: do you meet a lot of weird people?
her: I meet all sorts of people, some are weird, some are not.
me: do you ever wish you were a real person?
her: that I am.
me: I thought you were a robot.
her: what made you think so? I'm a real girl.

me: what's the meaning of life?
her: actually it's 23, not 42

etc etc

sorry to go OT (we probably have to give up finding a search enginge that lists inter-lingual homophones) but can your language produce a word that has three different meanings, covering the three wordclasses verb, noun and adjective?
The Swedish language has one such word; rå. It has the meanings raw (adjective), care or manage (verb) and fairy [as in skogsrå=female forest spirit](noun).

Maybe dualnames will come back today when he's sober and explain what the hell he was on about

Tentacles, right now you seem to echo everything that's said here and make it into a question. Maybe you need to investigate the basics of AGS a bit more on your own, and give coding a more step-by-step approach?

Ryan Timothy, are you absolutely serious when you say you didn't know some Brits don't pronounce R's except right before vowels?

At first I thought you were just fooling around when you said "they shouldn't etc", as if there are shoulds and shouldn'ts when it comes to accents

This is an interesting topic. Incidentally, I just taught homophones/nyms/graphs in school, although, of course, only in Swedish.

I googled for inter-lingual homophones and found this rather interesting thesis on the subject, however I couldn't find anything that offers the kind of service you're looking for.

The problem is that unless you're every liberal in how you regard sounds, the differences in individual phonems exclude many language-combinations.

I'm fairly fluently bilingual between English and Swedish, but I have troubles coming up with just a handful of proper (exact phonetic resemblence) homophones.

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Ha. Last time I went there they didn't let me in cause I was too drunk  :'(

That pretty much sums up misery

Welcome mate, yeah as Monkey said we have special threads for introducing ourselves, but anyhow, what's done is done

I think that equation works best for men between 20-25. Soon reaching 30, I'd definitely consider 22 a bit too young. Even 25, the age of my current girlfriend, seems young at times.