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  • Bob@feddit.nlto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneBiology rule
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    2 months ago

    I’m not convinced that there’s even a soft rule; I think it’s just a case of the one or the other way of doing it nebulously sticking, like how sometimes you form a noun with -ness and sometimes you do it with -hood. Which now I think about it is more or less what you’re saying, but I don’t think it’s done consciously at any rate.



  • Bob@feddit.nlto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneBiology rule
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    2 months ago

    adjectives as nouns are rarely a good sign in general

    I don’t think that’s true unless you mean within the context of referring to people or something, e.g. the blacks, the poors. But then stuff like “the rich” and “the unemployed” I don’t really take issue with.