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Cadzao Posted 18 years ago
Grammar

posteresque

"Kandinsky's work up to 1908 was marked by nothing more radical than a posteresque simplification."

What does "posteresque" mean? Please help!

Cadzao
  

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Hi Cadzao That means that Kandinsky's work was simple in the same way/manner that a poster is simple.

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  • Hi Cadzao That means that Kandinsky's work was simple in the same way/manner that a poster is simple.
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Hi Cadzao

That means that Kandinsky's work was simple in the same way/manner that a poster is simple.

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posteresque: in the manner of a poster
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Why can't the word posteresque be found in my dictionaries? I can only find picturesque.
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Yoong LiatWhy can't the word posteresque be found in my dictionaries? I can only find picturesque.

Maybe your dictionaries aren't dictionaryesque enough.
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Yoong LiatWhy can't the word posteresque be found in my dictionaries? I can only find picturesque.
"-esque" is a "living" suffix (I think there's probably a better technical word for this), by which I mean that it can be used fairly freely to coin new words that native speakers will understand but may not be listed individually in diction
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Mr Wordya "living" suffix (I think there's probably a better technical word for this)
"still productivein English"
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CalifJim"still productive in English"

Thanks ... that's what I was thinking of!
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