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Sun 7 Jul, 2013 09:17 am
Hi, There's a situation I don't know how to use idiomatic English to describe: I've been using a highlighter to highlight words in books for a long time, and today I've found that the 'colour band'(I don't know whether you call it so in English;if not, please tell me~) produced by the highlighter has a lighter colour than before; how do native speaker describe this? Do you say?:
-The highlighter is beginning to dry./The colour of the highlighter is fading./The highlighter is running out of colour.
@WBYeats,
These are quite common: The highlighter is
beginning to dry out
beginning to dry up
drying out
drying up
@WBYeats,
Quote:-The highlighter is beginning to dry.
Purely a technicality WB but I'd say "The highlight(er) is drying" since there's no specific instant at which the drying commences
Quote:/The colour of the highlighter is fading.
The highlight is fading
Quote:/The highlighter is running out of colour.
Nah I don't like this'n
@dalehileman,
dalehileman wrote:I'd say "The highlight(er) is drying" since there's no specific instant at which the drying commences
It is drying from the time it is manufactured; however we do not notice as long as enough colour remains to make an acceptable mark. (I found a box in a cupboard at work, all capped, all unused, that must have bought at least 2 years before, and they were all useless.
@contrex,
Correction: It is drying from the time it is manufactured; however we do not notice as long as enough colour remains to make an acceptable mark. (I found a box in a cupboard at work, all capped, all unused, that must have been bought at least 2 years before, and they were all useless.)
Thank you, Contrex and Dale~
@WBYeats,
You're quite welcome WB for what it's worth
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