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Default You can outlaw stupid...

On Wednesday, July 31, 2013 5:30:19 PM UTC-7, Dean Hoffman wrote:
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?


NON SEQUITUR

HB