[Ads-l] nominalized "bold"

[Jonathan Lighter]

This is diff.

The exx. all refer to people (or animals or alien invaders or whatever
material thing applies).

Recent exx. cited here refer to abstractions.

"Release the bold!" clearly means "Release the boldness [within Listerine]!"

JL

On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 9:35 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

> Do we need to call this abstract-nominalized "bold"?  property-nominalized
> "bold"?  Nominalization of adjectives for plural reference to those
> possessing the property is a staider matter:
>
> "None but the brave deserve the fair"
> "The poor ye always have with you"
> "The rich are different from you and me"
> "the blind leading the blind"
> etc.
>
> LH
>
> > On May 11, 2016, at 8:20 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
> wrote:
> >
> > "Listerine! Bring out the bold!"
> >
> > JL
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