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Dean Hoffman[_13_] Dean Hoffman[_13_] is offline
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Default You can outlaw stupid...

On 7/31/13 2:44 PM, Higgs Boson wrote:


Stupid (adjective)

Stupidity (noun)

You can outlaw STUPIDITY.

Distinction rapidly disappearing, as nouns get hijacked into becoming
adjectives. Part of the rapidly disappearing correct usage of
contemporary Enlgish. Why not just cut the process short and go back
to the English of Shakespeare's time, or even, hey, back to Chaucer.
Wouldn't that be fun!


Would we have to give up airplanes, cell phones, computers, and
such because there were no words for those things way back when?