language change among young people

[Ann Dowker]

I spemt a year in Edmonton, Alberta in 1970-1971. At that time and place,
children used "fun" as an adjective *very* frequently, e.g. "It's a fun
game" and - the one that startled my English ears the most- "It's a rough
game, but sometimes it's very fun."

Ann

On Thu, 12 Aug 1999, Leslie Barratt wrote:

>
> One more that I have noticed but not studied is the use of 'fun' as
> an attributive adjective as well as predicative.  I do not remember
> saying or hearing  'a fun time' etc. until about 15 years ago.  Does
> anyone know about this one?
>
> Leslie Barratt