Max,
Isn't the word 'different' in "Think different" more like a direct object
(what to think), as in: Think "different."?
Paul E. Doniger
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From: Max Morenberg <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 6:26 PM
Subject: Re: Query about "act professional and speak professional"
> Bill, with a great deal of trepidation, I'll jump into your question
> (prepared to jump out at any moment). At first glance, you'd want
> "professionally," an adverb, not the adjective "professional" in a
> slot following an intransitive verb. But I think the adjectives are
> functioning as adverbs. This gives them an interesting new meaning,
> much like Apple's "Think Different." It has more resonance than Think
> Differently would. After all, adjectives and manner adverbs are close
> in structure and meaning. And lots of times one part of speech has
> two syntactic manifestations (I'm grasping for terminology), kind of
> like when verbs function as nouns (gerunds and infinitives). Is this
> syncretism?
>
> I hope, Bill, this attends to the question you had in mind. Max
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> >While you're working on Linda's query about "now once again," please
ponder
> >this one. I have seen this construction several times, including in the
> >play "The Miracle Worker" and wonder how the experts parse it.
> >
> >If you act professional and speak professional, people will respect you.
> >
> >Bill
> >
> >
> > >Could I have some feedback about the wording of the following
sentence,
> > >especially regarding the phrase "now once again"?
> > >
> > >"In September 1991 the parish celebrated a re-dedication of the newly
> > >refurbished bell, which now once again calls the faithful to Mass and
lends
> > >its voice to celebrate weddings and bid farewell at funerals."
> > >
> >
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> Miami University
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