very giving

[Thomas Paikeday]

In my own corpus (I don't trust my native speaker instincts), "fun"
modifiers are "much," "good," and "great" - in that order of frequency.

T.M.P.

Bruce Dykes wrote:
>
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> Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2001 10:53
> Subject: Re: very giving
>
> > This phrase, "very giving", elicited the same initial reaction ["Yuk"]
> from
> > me as "very fun."  Since then, I've heard them often enough not to react.
>
> That's odd...for me the modifier for fun has always been 'big'...
>
> bkd