Re: Jokers wild (was: Re: Some help with Latin)

In a message dated 9/27/2007 2:14:58 AM Central Daylight Time,
rakko@CHARTER.NET writes:


> >> As for -ness, it's definitely still the usual suspect, although the
> >> mainstreamification of the Internet - and some portion of geekish
> >> subculture with it - has broadened the scope of two counter trends:
> >> wordplay-based alternatives ('terifficity")
> >
> > which goes back to my ready parallel point, yes?: electric -->
> > electricity; terrific --> terrificity
> >
> >> and bare forms used as
> >> nouns without modification ("full of awesome").  Cue another of those
> >> "o tempora, o mores" rants you mentioned. ;)
> >
> > Indeed. I'm going to sit on my porch, go to bed after Walter
> > Cronkite and my bowl of tapioca, and chase them damned whipper-
> > snappers off of my lawn. :)
> >
> > Kou
>
> Hehe. It annoys me when people add -ness to a noun (although, sadly,
> I've done it spontaneously a few times myself).
>
Possibly related are "bad" and "do" as in the phrases "my bad" and "his do",
both used as nouns.  Even calling a book a "good read" seems weird to me.

stevo   </HTML>

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