Lingo ELS

UNCOMMON ADJECTIVES

Gold or golden hair?
Stone or stony look?
Wood or wooden table?

Short versions of the above adjectives refer to an AUTHENTIC, REAL material from which the thing is made.

So, we say:

a wood table - made of wood
a stone monument - made of stone
a gold chain - made of gold
a silk scarf - made of silk
a feather hat - made of feathers

But, if the thing is NOT REALLY made of the material, but a description or metaphor, we say:

a wooden backround - on a computer
a stony look - an unpleasant look
a golden watch - not from real gold
silky hair - pleasant in touch
feathery light suitcase - very light

PUNCTUATION

Apart from saving people's lives it can also considerably change the meaning of a sentence :)

Take the following CV extract:

"My interest include: cooking dogs, dancing movies, food science"

So, the prospective (future) employee might be well looking for a job in China, a Bollywood movie or possibly a molecular gastronomy restaurant :)
But the office would be a far dream.

Or a blog extract:

"For all of those out there who fancy cooking my wife just made
a new blog at http://vegejadek.blogspot.com"

So, the moral is:

Use commas, don't be a psycho :)