Comment on Why English language is sometimes "lazy", sometimes not

Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• lvxferre@mander.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  could you say that town is homelessnessless?

  Has. The word is legit, but it would be an adjective because of the last -less there, so:

  • That town has homelessnessless.
  • That homelessnessless town is nice.

  You could convert it back into a noun, through zero derivation; for example “homeless” is an adjective too, but people can say “the homeless are hungry”, as if it was a noun. But it sounds weird in this situation, I don’t know why.

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  • Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    So, you are saying I should ask my representatives to focus more on achieving homelessnesslessness?

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