Date:  Sun, 3 Dec 1995 13:05:29 -0500

From:  Benjamin Barrett <Gogaku[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]GNN.COM>

Subject: Re: So fun



>Date:     Thu, 30 Nov 1995 17:08:52 -0800

>From: Peter McGraw <pmcgraw[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]CALVIN.LINFIELD.EDU>

>

>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".

>

I use "so fun" all the time. I believe "fun" is considered an adjective

only colloquially, but that is the way I use it all the time. The thing I

object to is adding -er and -est for comparative and superlative use. I

occasionally hear it, but "more/most fun" are the only funs for me.



yoroshiku from the W. Coast

Benjamin Barrett