Thursday 5 January 2012

The Daily Telegraph: Hello! It's 2012

gay: permissible in headlines if essential but use homosexual in text.

homosexual is an adjective, not a noun.

So why do you keep using it as a noun, you thick fuck?

Telegraph style book.
Posted by Fagburn at 07:04:00
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3 comments:

  1. Paul Brownsey5 January 2012 at 09:33

    There is nothing wrong with creating nouns from adjectives, verbs from nouns, etc, etc. It makes for linguistic flexibility and can save time. It wouldn't surprise me if we got the noun "Christian" from the adjective ("Christian believer") and the verb "pin" from the noun "pin" (so much handier to say, "Pin it up" rather than "Attach it by sticking a pin in it").

    Relax and party, man. ("Party": verb derived from noun.)

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  2. Anonymous5 January 2012 at 13:57

    Personally I hate it when nouns are verbed.

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  3. Anonymous5 January 2012 at 14:01

    'Christian' was koine Greek, from the word 'Christion' meaning little Christ. Tthe pagan majority applied it in mockery to the 'early Xtians' who then adopted it for themselves. :)

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