Date:  Fri, 1 Dec 1995 09:37:03 -0600

From:  EJOHNSON[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MSUVX2.MEMPHIS.EDU

Subject: Re: So fun



Count me as a "so fun" speaker. B. 1959, Atlanta, GA.



Ellen Johnson

ejohnson[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]cc.memphis.edu



>From: IN%"ADS-L[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]uga.cc.uga.edu" "American Dialect Society" 30-NOV-1995 19:12:40.97

>Subj: So fun

>

>A colleague just asked me whether I'd ever heard the expression "so fun".

>

>It sounds odd to me, and I THINK I'd say "such fun" or "so much fun", but

>I'm not 100% sure that I might not have said "so fun" experimentally as a

>kid, or that I have never heard anyone else say it. I can't quite get to

>the bottom of my own usage grammatically, since I'm pretty sure that when

>I say "It was fun", I'm thinking fun(adj.) and not fun(noun), and if this

>is the case, the adverb "so" would be appropriate, not the adjectivess

>"such" or "so much".

>

>My colleague says her daughter-in-law, who is from California, says it

>all the time, and she wonders if it's California regional usage. If so,

>maybe it's regional elsewhere as well. Or is it just idiolectal?

>

>Any thoughts?

>

>Peter McGraw

>Linfield College

>McMinnville, OR