Timeline for Is there a term for the use of adjectives as nouns?
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| Dec 20, 2019 at 23:29 | history | edited | tchrist♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 10, 2016 at 22:54 | vote | accept | jez | ||
| Feb 9, 2016 at 15:14 | comment | added | jez | @Silenus Hmm, yes. Orange is the new black. Different is the new normal. Divorced is the new single. | |
| Feb 9, 2016 at 14:48 | comment | added | DyingIsFun | @Jez, to complicate matters, even the uses of adjectives as nouns without definite articles are not always "novel and nonsensical." For example, 'red' was likely an adjective before it was ever used as a noun, but we use it as a noun without a definite article in sentences like 'Red is a color' which have no flavor of novelty or markedness like the marketing ones you point to. | |
| Feb 9, 2016 at 14:27 | comment | added | jez | That's helpful. But same question as for @bib: is it worth, then, making a terminological distinction between the practice of this with the definite article and without? The former seems well-established and natural, whereas the latter seems to have, er... much more novel and nonsensical to it. As the awkwardness of that attempt illustrates | |
| Feb 9, 2016 at 14:11 | history | answered | tchrist♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |