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2011-01-12 -Short Attention Span Theater-

An Inquiry into Modifier Noun Proliferation

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Posted by mom 2011-01-12 00:29|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top

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Posted by Mr. Bill 2011-01-12 01:28|| 2011-01-12 01:28|| Front Page Top

#2 What's happening is that nouns are being strung end to end in mindless litanies

OMG! We're turning into Germans! Pretty soon, we will be, habitually and without thought, at the end of a sentence, modal or otherwise, a verb putting.

Posted by SteveS 2011-01-12 01:41|| 2011-01-12 01:41|| Front Page Top

#3 I can't read this now, so I'll diary it in for later.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2011-01-12 05:21|| 2011-01-12 05:21|| Front Page Top

#4 Since the piece was written in 1970, I can only assume the Modifier Noun Proliferation problem has either worked itself out or become worse but to little effect. We've had double-speak for a long time.

Posted by JohnQC 2011-01-12 14:21|| 2011-01-12 14:21|| Front Page Top

#5 Two of the modifier nouns most frequently mentioned on the domestic-politics news front today: blood libel and smear campaign.

Posted by ryuge 2011-01-12 15:21|| 2011-01-12 15:21|| Front Page Top

#6 Dang, Steve, you nailed German perfectly. :-D

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2011-01-12 16:20|| 2011-01-12 16:20|| Front Page Top

#7 Fuhrer schurr.

About 6 six years of it in junior and high school. Fur nichts. Always got lost by the end on the sentence, which never seemed to be the end, but just where the sentence stopt.

Posted by Herman Clinens9220 2011-01-12 17:59|| 2011-01-12 17:59|| Front Page Top

#8 Isn't "modifier" a noun itself?

Just wondering . . . . >:-}

Posted by gorb 2011-01-12 20:34|| 2011-01-12 20:34|| Front Page Top

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