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To: NYC Republican; Redbob

“Vile” is an adjective, and has to modify a noun. It cannot be a noun itself, no matter how hard one tries to use it so.

In this context, the noun you want is indeed “bile.” If you must use the V, then the noun would be “vileness.”


101 posted on 04/04/2007 7:23:54 AM PDT by Xenalyte (Anything is possible when you don't understand how anything happens.)
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To: Xenalyte

Vile behavior. How’s that?


105 posted on 04/04/2007 7:26:14 AM PDT by NYC Republican (GOPs and Conservatives' Worst Nightmare - Myopic, Single-Issue Voters)
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To: Xenalyte

How about:

“Weiner is vile.” Where the “is” connotes permanence, as opposed to the “vile” merely modifying “Weiner.”

To use an anology from Spanish, it’s like the verb “es” vs. “esta” in Spanish).

Wiener esta malo.

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Wiener es malo -— as in he is the original vile, the epitome of disgust, the first evil.


111 posted on 04/04/2007 7:30:50 AM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Kol Hakavod Lezahal)
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To: Xenalyte

How about “vile bile” — that works for me.


142 posted on 04/04/2007 8:34:15 AM PDT by Fudd Fan ((Forever a proud SNOW-Flake!!))
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