Fail as an adjective

Joel S. Berson Berson at ATT.NET
Fri Jul 10 13:01:54 UTC 2009


At 7/10/2009 05:12 AM, Lynne Murphy wrote:
>Or is it that 'so' has become an all-purpose intensifier that goes with
>nouns as well as adjectives?

Like "It was so fun."

Joel

>See this song lyric, which popped up when I
>searched "I'm so loser":
>
><http://www.lyricstime.com/melody-fall-i-m-so-me-lyrics.html>
>
>Lynne

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