[Ads-l] more nominalized adjs.
Jonathan Lighter
wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM
Sun Nov 13 01:23:22 UTC 2016
Trailer for the new Warren Beatty movie: "If you're crazy, I want more
crazy!"
JL
On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 6:09 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 10:57 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com
> >
> wrote:
>
> > The ad says that to make the Duluth Trading Fire Hose Shirt Jac, it took
> > "tough, toasty, and some cozy."
> >
>
> Another example, from the NYT Online:
>
> "The hatred toward her would have bloomed forth unchecked: more
> obstruction, more mudslinging, more investigations, _more vile_ would have
> been in store for her."
> --
> -Wilson
> -----
> All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
> come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
> -Mark Twain
>
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