Salad Blues, winter leaves. edit 1.005,milo,billy,merc,erthona,fromcancer

[tectak]

For there to be a participle there needs to be a verb to participulate,  I dont think we need a dictionary for that.

While the double entendre is tempting, lets not forget it is peppers,  apples and eggplant s all swinging away purple-breastedly and I don't think a pepper breasted moxy or apple breasted foxy is what you wanted (or was it?).

Do you really get double entendre credit when you are swinging it in our face all purply?

Warning: if you lose pendulate your sentence has no verb and verbs make the baby Jesus smile

Hi milo,
cr.......edited.
Hmmm. I can do the maths but  not even for Jesus would I give up pendulate, now that I have checked the word out myself.
See how you feel about "nor". I blame you for making me do it
Best,
Tom

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Purply --

...is that purple praiseor purple prose?

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/purply

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For there to be a participle there needs to be a verb to participulate,  I dont think we need a dictionary for that.

While the double entendre is tempting, lets not forget it is peppers,  apples and eggplant s all swinging away purple-breastedly and I don't think a pepper breasted moxy or apple breasted foxy is what you wanted (or was it?).

Do you really get double entendre credit when you are swinging it in our face all purply?

Warning: if you lose pendulate your sentence has no verb and verbs make the baby Jesus smile

Hi milo,
cr.......edited.
Hmmm. I can do the maths but  not even for Jesus would I give up pendulate, now that I have checked the word out myself.
See how you feel about "nor". I blame you for making me do it
Best,
Tom

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well, let's see:

No ruby fruits, no piercing darts of piping chillies, nor eggplants
pendulate, purple-breasted


because we only have 1 verb (pendulate) we have to assume that we have a compund subject, whether exclusionary or inclusionary.  Because you use purple-breasted instead of purple-breastedly, we have to assume you are using pendulate as a linking verb which means we can replace it with any "be" verb just for grammatic clarity.


No fruits, chilies or eggplants are purple-breasted


depends, is this what you /want/ to say?

Hi milo.
Thanks for sticking with me on this. The shape of the language is now diminishing in its effect on meaning so it must be getting close.
It seems clear to me but it would, wouldn't it?
" there will be no ruby fruits or piping chillies, nor will there be any pendulate purple-breasted eggplants."
So why not say that? Poetry...that's why....bloody poetry

Interesting.
Best,
tectak