14.3579, Disc: Re: "Fun" as Adjective

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Subject: 14.3579, Disc: Re: "Fun" as Adjective

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Date:  Mon, 22 Dec 2003 09:29:38 +0200
From:  ellen valle <elvalle at utu.fi>
Subject:  Re: 14.3534, Disc: Re: "Fun" as Adjective

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Date:  Mon, 22 Dec 2003 09:29:38 +0200
From:  ellen valle <elvalle at utu.fi>
Subject:  Re: 14.3534, Disc: Re: "Fun" as Adjective


I evidently haven't seen the beginning of this thread (adjectival use
of 'fun'), but I was struck by the use of the superlative 'funnest' as
a modifier ("the funnest thing was ...), twice in one turn, by the
American actor Brad Dourif in the documentary part of the DVD of The
Two Towers (disc 4, the part dealing with the filming of Edoras). At
least to me this was a new and somewhat startling usage -- is it
becoming common in American English?


-Ellen Valle


Ellen Valle, Ph.D.
Senior Lecturer, Department of English
University of Turku, 20014 Turku, Finland
tel. +358 2 3335321	
fax +358 2 333 5630
ellen.valle at utu.fi

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