Re: Outdoor cat

From	"Mr Macaw" <no@spam.com>
Newsgroups	alt.usage.english
Subject	Re: Outdoor cat
Date	2016-01-02 20:47 +0000
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On Sat, 02 Jan 2016 03:50:49 -0000, Peter T. Daniels <grammatim@verizon.net> wrote:

> On Friday, January 1, 2016 at 3:32:10 PM UTC-5, Mr Macaw wrote:
>> On Fri, 01 Jan 2016 20:26:46 -0000, Peter T. Daniels <grammatim@verizon.net> wrote:
>>
>> > On Friday, January 1, 2016 at 10:27:41 AM UTC-5, Mr Macaw wrote:
>> >> On Fri, 01 Jan 2016 15:02:01 -0000, Peter T. Daniels <grammatim@verizon.net> wrote:
>> >> > On Friday, January 1, 2016 at 7:04:20 AM UTC-5, Harrison Hill wrote:
>> >> >> On Friday, 1 January 2016 07:47:32 UTC, Peter Moylan  wrote:
>> >
>> >> >> > In response to a question about a missing cat, I said "Oh, she'll be in
>> >> >> > the yard somewhere. She's more of an outdoor cat."
>> >> >> > Now that I'm reading AUE, I'm suddenly wondering whether some people
>> >> >> > here would have said "outdoors cat". Is the "s" optional in some
>> >> >> > regions? Compulsory?
>> >> >> "Indoor" and "outdoor" cats are normal in my BrE. "Outdoors" and
>> >> >> "indoors" are nouns.
>> >> > Or adverbs. "The cat often goes outdoors."
>> >>
>> >> No, in that sentence I'd say "outdoors" was a place.  Same as "The cat often goes to Brazil".  Brazil and outdoors are proper nouns.
>> >
>> > "to Brazil" and "outdoors" are adverbs. (The former being an adverbial phrase.)
>>
>> [speaking down to a child voice]
>> No, outdoors is a NOUN.  Think of places you can be.  Beach, car, house, garden, outdoors, all NOUNS.  It is a place where you can be located.  A NOUN.
>
> [pretending the hearer is capable of comprehending first-year university work]
> Parts of speech are not defined by semantics, but by inflectional morphology
> and by syntactic function.

I didn't take English above A level.  What you just said is incomprehensible.

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Outdoor cat Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org.invalid> - 2016-01-01 18:47 +1100
  Re: Outdoor cat RH Draney <dadoctah@cox.net> - 2016-01-01 01:54 -0700
    Re: Outdoor cat Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org.invalid> - 2016-01-01 20:27 +1100
    Re: Outdoor cat bill van <billvan@delete.shaw.ca> - 2016-01-01 04:12 -0800
      Re: Outdoor cat Snidely <snidely.too@gmail.com> - 2016-01-01 12:40 -0800
    Re: Outdoor cat "Mr Macaw" <no@spam.com> - 2016-01-01 15:31 +0000
  Re: Outdoor cat grabber <gr@bb.er> - 2016-01-01 09:40 +0000
  Re: Outdoor cat Peter Young <pnyoung@ormail.co.uk> - 2016-01-01 08:45 +0000
    Re: Outdoor cat "Peter Duncanson [BrE]" <mail@peterduncanson.net> - 2016-01-01 12:56 +0000
  Re: Outdoor cat Harrison Hill <harrisonhill2345@gmail.com> - 2016-01-01 04:04 -0800
    Re: Outdoor cat "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@verizon.net> - 2016-01-01 07:02 -0800
      Re: Outdoor cat pensive hamster <pensive_hamster@hotmail.co.uk> - 2016-01-01 07:22 -0800
        Re: Outdoor cat "Mr Macaw" <no@spam.com> - 2016-01-01 15:27 +0000
          Re: Outdoor cat CDB <bellemarecd@gmail.com> - 2016-01-01 11:14 -0500
            Re: Outdoor cat "Mr Macaw" <no@spam.com> - 2016-01-01 16:25 +0000
      Re: Outdoor cat "Mr Macaw" <no@spam.com> - 2016-01-01 15:27 +0000
        Re: Outdoor cat "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@verizon.net> - 2016-01-01 12:26 -0800
          Re: Outdoor cat "Mr Macaw" <no@spam.com> - 2016-01-01 20:32 +0000
            Re: Outdoor cat "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@verizon.net> - 2016-01-01 19:50 -0800
              Re: Outdoor cat "Mr Macaw" <no@spam.com> - 2016-01-02 20:47 +0000
  Re: Outdoor cat "Mr Macaw" <no@spam.com> - 2016-01-01 15:29 +0000
    Re: Outdoor cat Pavel Svinchnik <pintiha@jhmi.edu> - 2016-01-01 13:14 -0800
      Re: Outdoor cat Peter Young <pnyoung@ormail.co.uk> - 2016-01-01 21:16 +0000
        Re: Outdoor cat Janet <nobody@home.org> - 2016-01-02 12:10 +0000
          Re: Outdoor cat charles <charles@candehope.me.uk> - 2016-01-02 12:14 +0000
            Re: Outdoor cat "Mr Macaw" <no@spam.com> - 2016-01-02 20:53 +0000
          Re: Outdoor cat Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org.invalid> - 2016-01-03 10:42 +1100
        Re: Outdoor cat "Peter Duncanson [BrE]" <mail@peterduncanson.net> - 2016-01-02 13:00 +0000
          Re: Outdoor cat "Mr Macaw" <no@spam.com> - 2016-01-02 20:54 +0000
      Re: Outdoor cat "Mr Macaw" <no@spam.com> - 2016-01-01 21:22 +0000
        Re: Outdoor cat Pavel Svinchnik <pintiha@jhmi.edu> - 2016-01-01 19:12 -0800
          Re: Outdoor cat jgh@mdfs.net - 2016-01-02 01:03 -0800
            Re: Outdoor cat Pavel Svinchnik <pintiha@jhmi.edu> - 2016-01-02 06:20 -0800
          Re: Outdoor cat "Mr Macaw" <no@spam.com> - 2016-01-02 20:57 +0000
        Re: Outdoor cat "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@verizon.net> - 2016-01-01 19:53 -0800
          Re: Outdoor cat "Mr Macaw" <no@spam.com> - 2016-01-02 20:48 +0000
            Re: Outdoor cat "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@verizon.net> - 2016-01-02 13:37 -0800
              Re: Outdoor cat "Mr Macaw" <no@spam.com> - 2016-01-02 21:42 +0000
                Re: Outdoor cat "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@verizon.net> - 2016-01-02 21:26 -0800
                Re: Outdoor cat "Mr Macaw" <no@spam.com> - 2016-01-03 18:32 +0000
                Re: Outdoor cat "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@verizon.net> - 2016-01-03 11:04 -0800
                Re: Outdoor cat "Mr Macaw" <no@spam.com> - 2016-01-03 19:26 +0000
                Re: Outdoor cat Ross <benlizro@ihug.co.nz> - 2016-01-03 18:07 -0800
                Re: Outdoor cat "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@verizon.net> - 2016-01-03 19:53 -0800
                Re: Outdoor cat "Mr Macaw" <no@spam.com> - 2016-01-04 15:58 +0000
                Re: Outdoor cat GordonD <g.davie@btinternet.com> - 2016-01-04 16:19 +0000
                Re: Outdoor cat "Mr Macaw" <no@spam.com> - 2016-01-04 17:16 +0000
        Re: Outdoor cat "Peter Duncanson [BrE]" <mail@peterduncanson.net> - 2016-01-02 13:07 +0000
          Re: Outdoor cat "Mr Macaw" <no@spam.com> - 2016-01-02 20:55 +0000
      Re: Outdoor cat nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2016-01-02 11:38 +0100
        Re: Outdoor cat "Mr Macaw" <no@spam.com> - 2016-01-02 20:51 +0000
          Re: Outdoor cat nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2016-01-03 10:34 +0100
            Re: Outdoor cat "Mr Macaw" <no@spam.com> - 2016-01-03 18:33 +0000
  Re: Outdoor cat Stan Brown <the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm> - 2016-01-01 10:46 -0500
    Re: Outdoor cat David Kleinecke <dkleinecke@gmail.com> - 2016-01-01 09:23 -0800
  Re: Outdoor cat jgh@mdfs.net - 2016-01-02 00:54 -0800
    Re: Outdoor cat "Peter Duncanson [BrE]" <mail@peterduncanson.net> - 2016-01-02 13:39 +0000
      Re: Outdoor cat David Kleinecke <dkleinecke@gmail.com> - 2016-01-02 09:42 -0800
      Re: Outdoor cat pensive hamster <pensive_hamster@hotmail.co.uk> - 2016-01-02 09:59 -0800

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