Engineering amazing

[Tom Zurinskas]

 > "Amazing" is a noun.
That's the pricing of a progressing.

Tom Zurinskas, first Ct 20 yrs, then Tn 3, NJ 33, Fl 9.
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> Just saw the commercial (one of several) in its entirety.
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> "Amazing" is a noun.
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> "When you pursue industry-leading safety, you don't just engineer
> breakthroughs and simulation technology. You engineer amazing."
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> JL
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> On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 2:44 PM, victor steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com>wrote:
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> > Ram Tough==Tough As [a] Ram~~Tough Like [a] Ram (with Ram==Dodge).
> > Actually,
> > interpreting "engineering" as a gerund, would add one more variant
> > interpretation to "engineering amazing"--amazing engineering. But, I
> > suspect
> > that most people would see a verb there (participle).
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> > VS-)
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> > On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 5:02 PM, Benjamin Barrett <gogaku at ix.netcom.com
> > >wrote:
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> > > I'm not sure whether to top-post or bottom-post now, but I don't see the
> > > connection between "engineering amazing" (vt + adj) and "Ram tough" (noun
> > +
> > > adj).
> > >
> > > Benjamin Barrett
> > > Seattle, WA
> > >
> > > On Sep 15, 2011, at 1:39 PM, Ronald Butters wrote:
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> > > >
> > > > Surely there are constructions galore of the form Noun + {Adjectivey
> > > thing}, particularly in advertising? "POM wonderful"? "the coffee
> > > delicious"? "Ram Tough"?
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