[etni] Re: Fw: re: fun, funny here's the message
- From: Bari Nirenberg <bnirenberg@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 13:04:49 +0200
> Funny is an adjective and fun a noun.
> Very is used before adjectives.
>
> The party was great fun.
> It was a funny party.
It was a funny party? Only if someone did something funny. I've
never heard that usage, except among my Israeli students. It was a
FUN party -- I had a lot of fun there. According to Merriam-Webster,
"fun" is both a noun and an adjective, depending on how you use it.
Although "fun" and "funny" certainly derive from the same word, I
don't believe that "funny" is the adjective form of the noun "fun".
Bari
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