Timeline for Why do you say "air conditioned" and not "conditioned air"?
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| Dec 7, 2020 at 21:59 | comment | added | mjjf | @mishan The house is not conditioned by air, no one says that. The house can be filled with air, contain air, etc. Look at the definitions of conditioned, it makes sense for air, leather, hair, but not for houses. | |
| Dec 7, 2020 at 17:01 | comment | added | Acccumulation | "Condition", as a verb, has developed a specific meaning when referring to air. The general meaning is to put in a particular state. And every house is put in a particular state by air. " That's like saying that we shouldn't say that houses have hot water" A better analogy is that we shouldn't call a house "water conditioned" just because it has a water conditioner. | |
| Dec 7, 2020 at 17:01 | comment | added | Acccumulation | @mishan If you say "This necklace is speckled with diamonds", the meaning is clear. Being speckled has a clear meaning, it is being applied to the necklace, and diamonds are specified as the mechanism. If you said "This house is conditioned by air", that's a bizarre thing to say, and if someone figures out what you're saying, it's only because they figure out that you're very awkwardly saying it has air conditioning. | |
| Dec 7, 2020 at 12:02 | comment | added | mishan | @Acccumulation ehm..ackthsually (intentional misspelling) the house IS conditioned by air, which is conditioned by air-conditioner (and blown inside the house). That all houses have air does not mean that all houses have air conditioned by the air-conditioner. That's like saying that we shouldn't say that houses have hot water because all houses have some form of water intake. They do, but this house also has a water heater heating the water (clumsy air conditioned analogy). | |
| Dec 6, 2020 at 3:24 | comment | added | Acccumulation | They should all be noun-verbed noun. Also, those all mean noun verbed with noun, but an air conditioned house is not a house conditioned with air. All houses have air. | |
| Dec 5, 2020 at 22:03 | history | answered | Ross Presser | CC BY-SA 4.0 |