"important" as noun

Mark Mandel thnidu at GMAIL.COM
Thu May 8 18:15:15 UTC 2008


Or, on hasty review, seeing "its important" and accepting it (as what
I'd write as "it's important").

On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 11:30 AM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
> This is most likely a typo in an email message I received, but I hope
> it is not an emerging trend.  An inability to decide between "import"
> and "importance"?
>
> "As for author quirkiness, some authors cap an ordinary noun in the
> hope of adding to its important or turn it into some kind of buzz word."
>
> Joel
>
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