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Dr. Anton Phibes wrote:
"This is really, really [expletive] brilliant," Bono said during the ceremony, using the f-word as an adjective. The speech aired live on the East Coast. The FCC said it received 234 complaints, all but 17 of them from individuals associated with the Parents Television Council, a nonprofit group that monitors programs for adult content. That's an adverb, not an adjective. -- Ron Hardin On the internet, nobody knows you're a jerk. |
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"Ron Hardin" wrote in message ... Dr. Anton Phibes wrote: "This is really, really [expletive] brilliant," Bono said during the ceremony, using the f-word as an adjective. The speech aired live on the East Coast. The FCC said it received 234 complaints, all but 17 of them from individuals associated with the Parents Television Council, a nonprofit group that monitors programs for adult content. That's an adverb, not an adjective. -- Ron Hardin On the internet, nobody knows you're a jerk. Actually Ron, I didn't write the above point on grammatical content. The FCC did (!) in their 'official' decision. Guess it proves the point that the FCC *should be regulating technical issues* and not issues of program content. Your typical Washington DC bureaucracy at work. When their not wasting money their likely wasting time and putting out useless and/or esoteric info that's not worth the ink used to coat the paper saidsame is printed upon. |
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The FCC did (!) in their 'official' decision. Guess it proves the point that the FCC *should be regulating technical issues* and not issues of program content. I still remember how to change channels. Programming is driven by revenue. If people watch it, then the ad time is worth money, and whatever it is, we'll get more of it. If people turn it off, then the ad time looses value, and whatever it is, it will get pulled. Hard to imagine a more democratic method of selection. |
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The FCC did (!) in their 'official' decision. G FCC now = ****ing ****s and Cocks ;-) |
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Ron Hardin wrote:
Dr. Anton Phibes wrote: "This is really, really [expletive] brilliant," Bono said during the ceremony, using the f-word as an adjective. The speech aired live on the East Coast. The FCC said it received 234 complaints, all but 17 of them from individuals associated with the Parents Television Council, a nonprofit group that monitors programs for adult content. That's an adverb, not an adjective. Actually, "brilliant" is the direct object of the sentence, which by definition, is a noun, so that particular modifier is an adjective, and not an adverb. "This" is the subject, "is" is the verb, 3PS of "to be", and the sentence is actually not grammatically correct, so there are some problems deciding what part each word performs, or the ****ing intent. When you have an illiterate moron musician trying to speak the King's English, you get "This is really, really, ****ing brilliant." What the **** does that mean? Is there, perchance, a light in his eyes that makes him unable to read the ****ing teleprompter? If he were to have said "This is really, really ****ing brilliantly done", then '****ing' would have been modifying an adverb, which still makes it an adjective. The only other uses of "****ing" would be either present participle ("Bubba is ****ing his new cellmate"), or gerund (a noun formed from a verb, such as "I enjoy ****ing", or maybe the classic failed Minnie Mouse insanity defense, during their divorce proceeding, where Mickey tells the Judge that Minnie is "****ing Goofy." (anyone interested in this stuff, go to http://www.uottawa.ca/academic/arts/...r/verbals.html ) 73, Dave KZ1O |
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Ron Hardin wrote in message ...
Dr. Anton Phibes wrote: "This is really, really [expletive] brilliant," Bono said during the ceremony, using the f-word as an adjective. The speech aired live on the East Coast. The FCC said it received 234 complaints, all but 17 of them from individuals associated with the Parents Television Council, a nonprofit group that monitors programs for adult content. That's an adverb, not an adjective. Um, no; it is modifying "brilliant", which is a noun. Thus it is an adjective. |
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"Richard Cranium" wrote in message om... Ron Hardin wrote in message ... Dr. Anton Phibes wrote: "This is really, really [expletive] brilliant," Bono said during the ceremony, using the f-word as an adjective. The speech aired live on the East Coast. The FCC said it received 234 complaints, all but 17 of them from individuals associated with the Parents Television Council, a nonprofit group that monitors programs for adult content. That's an adverb, not an adjective. Um, no; it is modifying "brilliant", which is a noun. Thus it is an adjective. Brilliant is an adjective in the above sentence as he was not referring to a precious gem. bril·liant adj. Full of light; shining. See Synonyms at bright. Relating to or being a hue that has a combination of high lightness and strong saturation. Sharp and clear in tone. Glorious; magnificent: the brilliant court life at Versailles. Superb; wonderful: The soloist gave a brilliant performance. Marked by unusual and impressive intellectual acuteness: a brilliant mind; a brilliant solution to the problem. See Synonyms at intelligent. n. A precious gem, especially a diamond, finely cut in So the sentence in question has the following structure. This - pronoun, subject of sentence is - verb, state of being really, really [expletive] - string of adverbs modifying the adjective that follows. [expletive] referred to is a special case where the adverb has been formed from a verb. brilliant - a characteristic and thus an adjective not a noun. It has the same nature as the sentence "John is tired" which uses an adjective to describe John. It is not the nature as the sentence "John is a boy". The first sentence is noun-verb-adjective where the latter is noun-verb-noun. Dee D. Flint, N8UZE |
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