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Re: OT: Fun, was Re: First thoughts on Imperial

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Sunday, July 20, 2003, 9:38
Quoting Tristan McLeay <zsau@...>:

> On Sun, 20 Jul 2003, Ian Spackman wrote: > > > At 22:54 19/07/03, Doug Dee <AmateurLinguist@...> wrote: > > > > >I'm not sure that it's accurate to say that "fun" was a noun and not an > > >adjective for people within, say, the last century. > > I'd always wondered why 'fun' apparently broken the rule that monosyllabic > adjectives tend to form the comparative and superlative with -er and -est. > I've always used and heard it formed with 'more/most' unless someone was > being funny. I don't think it works as a noun for me, and I can hardly > think of a case where it could only be analysed as a noun. Such a useage > would be interesting.
"X is great fun", perhaps? "Great" cannot normally modify an adjective, at least in the variant I was taught. Andreas

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