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Mon 7 Oct, 2013 03:38 am
"I can barely see the officer's face through the small blurred window ." If not, then what word would best describe an old worn scratchy window?
@MelissaV,
dirty
partially-obscured
scratched
dirt-streaked
dirt-smeared
dark
"Blurred" is not so good, because it refers to the image and not the window imho.
Quote:Can blurred be used as present tense?
Blurred is an adjective; they don't have tenses.
@MelissaV,
It often strikes me Lis how often we encounter concepts for which there's no single common word
http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/74780/what-do-you-call-a-window-that-is-neither-opaque-nor-transparent
As for Con's comment, as a technician or grammaticist of course he's right. But here's another case of missing word. There ought to be a term for an implied tense, eg, "I lie on my mother's lap" instantly bringing to mind past instances
@contrex,
Quote:Blurred is an adjective; they don't have tenses.
I didn't like to say too much about that. Technicalities can make you tense.
@McTag,
Quote:Technicalities can make you tense.
Yea Mac, while they probably number in the tenses