I agree, and I also think that it is part of the tendency that I mentioned a while ago towards utterances that are collages of direct quoations rather than new syntactic structures, e.g. "He was like 'Think "different"'! And I was like 'Hunh?'" On Wed, 7 Feb 2001 Johanna Rubba wrote: > I agree with you completely, Paul. It was what I was getting at when I > put "different" in quotes in my analysis. Hence the adjective-used-as-direct-object-and-looking-like-it's-trying-to-be-a-noun. > > ! > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Johanna Rubba Assistant Professor, Linguistics > English Department, California Polytechnic State University > One Grand Avenue • San Luis Obispo, CA 93407 > Tel. (805)-756-2184 • Fax: (805)-756-6374 • Dept. Phone. 756-259 > • E-mail: [log in to unmask] • Home page: http://www.cla.calpoly.edu/~jrubba > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > To join or leave this LISTSERV list, please visit the list's web interface at: > http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/ateg.html > and select "Join or leave the list" > > Visit ATEG's web site at http://ateg.org/ > To join or leave this LISTSERV list, please visit the list's web interface at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/ateg.html and select "Join or leave the list" Visit ATEG's web site at http://ateg.org/