[Ads-l] creatives

[Marc Sacks]

"Creative" used this way sounds like an analogue to "religious" as a noun
to refer to a person in a religious order.

Marc Sacks

On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 11:56 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

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> > On Jul 23, 2018, at 11:48 AM, Ben Zimmer <bgzimmer at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> > On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 11:38 AM, Mark Mandel =
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> >>> "The Garage" comprises 14 affordable studios for artists, creatives =
> and
> >> small businesses
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> >> This is in the text describing a video at
> >> https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3DFg6dNWlqnrY
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> >> VIDEO: Cherry Street Pier, Philly's next revitalized waterfront space
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> > See the OED3 entry for "creative, n." (revised June 2003). Sense 2, "a
> > creative person, a person whose job involves creative work," dates =
> back to
> > 1938, and cites from 1970 on show the more specific sense in =
> advertising:
> > "a person who carries out creative work on an advertising campaign, =
> esp. a
> > copywriter, art director, or designer.=E2=80=9D
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> Indeed, this use of =E2=80=9Ccreative(s)=E2=80=9D immediately conjured =
> up Mad Men for me.  I can=E2=80=99t remember if that=E2=80=99s where I =
> first encountered it but it may have been.
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> > See also Arnold Z.'s 2012 post on the nouning of "creative":
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> > https://arnoldzwicky.org/2012/03/12/annals-of-nouning-creative/
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