demotic adjectives

Arnold M. Zwicky zwicky at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU
Fri Mar 26 21:32:37 UTC 2004


to the list of nouns directly converted to adjectives, either via
predicative or compound-noun uses, add "punk", as in
   how punk are you?
   no matter how punk you pretend to be...
   that's so punk

not nearly as interesting as "w(h)ack", of course.

arnold (zwicky at csli.stanford.edu)



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