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Sun 25 Jul, 2004 07:06 am
sometimes I come to verbs whitch I cant find in a dictionary...like perm.
The original sentence:
She has just permed kinky.(for hair ).
Now looka at this n tell me yout opinion about the verb used :
We kept sculpting our clay faces exactly like our own features.
shouldnt we used sculpturing instead, because the nown n the verb is sculpture..( as far as I know )
"She has just permed kinky" makes no sense. The sentence should read "She just permed her hair. Now it's kinky" (or, Now it's curly).
Sculpture is a noun, not a verb. Sculpting is the correct form.
but I looked it up in my dictionary n I found a verb sculpture..
so perm is like trim...right
thanks
navigator, although I tend to agree with jespah, I looked it up in my big English-German dictionary. And that does not even have the word 'to sculpt', it does have 'to sculpture', though.
To perm your hair means to make it permanently wavy or curly.
Where are you from?
'To sculpture,' according to Oxford and Cambridge, means to 'practise sculpture. Using sculpture as a verb in any other sense is apparently a mistake. 'Sculpt' is the right form, in this circumstance and in most.
As a native Brit with an interest in arts, I've NEVER heard "to sculpture"...I'd recommend you to forget it - the dictionaries may be right but it's almost never used.
KP
urs53 wrote:
To perm your hair means to make it permanently wavy or curly.
uhm....for me "to perm" MY hair means to make it permanently straight.
I agree with all of you about 'to sculpture' - sounds very strange to me, too!
Onyxelle :-) My hair is extremely straight. I just cannot imagine anyone wanting her hair to be straight if it's not... :-) Of course you are right!
Yeah, 'perm' is a shortening of permanent treatment. It wasn't intended to be a verb, but English is a living language. This why why it is possible to "party".
Typically, one would get a perm. But because we love slang and use nouns as verbs, we can get permed. (not that one would want to)
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