[Ads-l] more nominalized adjs.

[Laurence Horn]

> On Nov 13, 2016, at 6:17 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> Sonic:  "Nothing tastes better than free!"
> 
> Am starting to think these nominalized forms occur only in objective
> positions. True?

I don't think so, at least if we count equative structures: 

"Crazy is fine. I can go for crazy."
"Cozy is what I like."

Rinse and repeat for other nouned adjectives.

LH


> 
> On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 8:23 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> 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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>> 
>> --
>> "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."
>> 
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> "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."
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