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

From:<morphemeaddict@...>
Date:Thursday, September 27, 2007, 15:03
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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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>