Re: a noun is still a noun

[Bernard Cleyet <georgeann@REDSHIFT.COM>]

Nah ..

birthday is an adverb, as in let's go birthday party it up at Jim's.

bc


"John S. Denker" wrote:

> In arguing that "heat" is a noun, I wrote:
> > > > I assure you that these people use "heat" as a noun.  They talk about heat
> > > > pulses, heat capacity, heat leaks, heat shields, heat switches, and heat
> > > > exchangers.  If you tried to tell them that "heat" is not a noun they
> > > > would think you were from the far side of Mars.
>
> At 05:04 PM 5/7/01 -0700, Larry Woolf quoted Craig Bohren as saying:
>
> > Also, I also note that in all these examples "heat" is used essentially as
> > an adjective.
>
> You can call it an adjectival usage if you want, but that hardly makes
> "heat" any less of a noun!  Virtually every noun in English can be used
> this way.
>
> For instance, the existence of the phrase "birthday party" does not make
> "birthday" anything other than a noun.
>    http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?va=birthday
>
> A true adjective, such as "good", can be shifted to the predicate:
>          Good pulses entered the system. -->    The pulses seemed good.
> This stands in contrast with:
>          Heat pulses entered the system. --> [*/The pulses seemed heat./*]