[Ads-l] nominalized "bold"

[Joel Berson]

Or "The Bold and the Beautiful".

Joel


      From: Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
 To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU 
 Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2016 9:35 AM
 Subject: Re: [ADS-L] nominalized "bold"
   
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
> 
> -- 
> "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."
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