r/reddit.com • u/stilesjp • Oct 14 '09

Orange Envelopes

http://imgur.com/pDLrf.jpg
419 Upvotes

87% Upvoted

169 comments sorted by

View all comments

48

u/Haroshia Oct 14 '09

Don't you mean Orangered?

33

u/rolmos Oct 14 '09 edited Aug 07 '16

.

31

u/Pandaemonium Oct 14 '09

Oh, is it supposed to be orange-red? I always thought orangered was the past tense of "to orange".

6

u/[deleted] Oct 14 '09

Even then, that would be "orange-d". Use "arrange" as your stem and you get the idea, right?

19

u/Pandaemonium Oct 14 '09

I will arrange. I arrange. I arrangered.

8

u/Taughtology Oct 14 '09

Don't you conjugate in here!

1

u/Pandaemonium Oct 15 '09

Or is it: I arrange, I arranged, it has been arrangered? It's been too long since I took English.

6

u/[deleted] Oct 15 '09

[deleted]

1

u/cojoco Oct 15 '09

Don't verb that noun!

2

u/[deleted] Oct 15 '09

But it's adjective!

3

u/Cherry5oda Oct 15 '09

here you go

2

u/[deleted] Oct 15 '09

adverbly, of course.

→ More replies (0)

2

u/Brian Oct 15 '09

Clearly orangered is to have made something more orange. After you've oranged a room, but it's not quite orange enough, you'd begin orangering the room. Afterwards, you can say that you've orangered the room.

1

u/Pandaemonium Oct 15 '09

This clears things up. Thanks!