Anonymous #1 18h

no lmao

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Anonymous OP 18h

I’ve seen it used both ways. Why can’t it be both?

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Anonymous #1 18h

Give me a sentence where it is a noun

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Anonymous #2 18h

it is by definition a noun lol

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Anonymous #2 18h

“Wow, I’ve never seen such whimsy. Very nice” in this sentence, whimsy is used as a noun, and I’d say it’s grammatically correct. However I do understand that in the majority of cases, “whimsy” is an adjective. I just acknowledge both

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Anonymous #1 18h

What is that to say? That sort of whimsy. That “kind of whimsy.” The whimsy of that sort. The whimsy of what? The whimsy of a film? That’s an adjective. You’re talking about the features of that film. That’s an adjective. The whimsy of that girl? The what? The kind of description of that girl. Adjective

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Anonymous #3 18h

A “whim” is a noun. Whimsy is an adjective

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Anonymous #2 18h

are you having a stroke?

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Anonymous OP 17h

Slow as hell

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Anonymous #2 17h

say i mention the "sadness" of a film. does that mean "sadness" is an adjective? because that's the argument you're making.

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Anonymous OP 17h

the state of the u.s. education system

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Anonymous OP 17h

If you’re watching a whimsy movie or a movie with whimsy, the noun is the movie. Describing it with whimsy. Are we fucking slow?

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Anonymous OP 17h

That’s how language works things can be both

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Anonymous #2 17h

A noun is a person place or thing, an abstract concept is still a thing

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Anonymous #5 16h

it's misuse of the word. people mix up you're/your all the time, that doesn't mean "i think your wrong" is correct

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Anonymous #2 16h

"a movie with whimsy" is "a [noun] with [noun]" it would be a "whimsical movie" not a "whimsy movie"

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Anonymous #4 16h

the -y ending is oneshotting these people oml

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Anonymous OP 16h

Open the schools 💔

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Anonymous #4 15h

No, it’s a noun. It’s an attribute, which is a “thing” therefore a noun. Attributes are not adjectives

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Anonymous #6 15h

whimsical is an adjective whimsy is a noun

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Anonymous #5 15h

No it can’t. Whimsical is an adjective. Whimsy can never be an adjective because it’s always a noun

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Anonymous OP 15h

Exactly

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Anonymous #7 12h

The death of American literacy past like a 4th grade level

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Anonymous #8 12h

Okay calm down. Academic semantics is no reason to talk down to people. Some people just don’t understand it, and that’s okay

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Anonymous #6 11h

it is actually very concerning that this poll is 50/50

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Anonymous OP 11h

🤓

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Anonymous #6 11h

It’s not talking down to people I’m just concerned that our literacy rates are dropping, it’s not OK because we’re getting dumber and that makes us easier to manipulate

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Anonymous #8 10h

Our literacy rate isn’t dropping. Past literacy rates reflect our ability to read ANY English, whereas modern ones reflect our ability to read at a college level. You’ve been misinformed

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Anonymous #6 10h

Apparently knowing the difference between a noun and a verb doesn’t make you any harder to manipulate

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Anonymous OP 10h

Whimsy, that which has whims

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Anonymous #6 10h

Not trying to talk down to people, just observing the state of American English education. I don’t mind people breaking the rules of academic English in general, but I think they should know them in the first place before they break them to ensure effective communication when required. This is a relatively minor example of an overall trend

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Anonymous #7 10h

This particular example is also not just a boy academic English, but every dialect of English I’m aware of (which is certainly not all of them). “Ain’t” for example is perfectly grammatically correct in everything but academic English — whimsy being used as an adjective isn’t in any dialect afaik.

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Anonymous #7 10h

It’s not a trend. Education is not moving backwards, the economy is not shit, the world is not ending. Ever since the dawn of time, people have been saying that the world is on the brink. It’s a mortal obsession. But you need to stop twisting things just to match that interpretation. People can speak and read just fine, and the people who are wrong here know how to use the word whimsy. They simply aren’t categorizing the words correctly. It’s completely useless knowledge unless you’re an English

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Anonymous #6 10h

Teacher

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Anonymous #6 10h

American math and reading test scores have fallen in the last decade (aka a trend!). That is a fact, not an opinion. Teachers have been anecdotally noting a decline in reading and writing abilities of their students as well since about the pandemic. The state of our education is certainly better than it was a hundred years ago, but statistically worse than it was ten years ago. Look up Stanford Educational Opportunity Project for the stats.

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Anonymous #6 10h

I do agree that people here can use whimsy appropriately, and that the knowledge is mostly superfluous, but I don’t love people confidently defending the wrong answer. Obvs most respondents aren’t doing that, but I don’t love it that some are.

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Anonymous #7 10h

Has there ever been a decade when teachers didn’t claim reading and writing were declining? I recall an old note in a stone tablet a thousand years ago where a professor complains that students no longer know how to write on tablets because of this new “paper” shit. Old people always complain that the youth are getting dumber and young people always complain that old people are out of touch. And as for test scores, that’s likely because of a temporary surge in long-distance learning

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Anonymous #7 10h

People are stubborn dude you can’t change that. I also hate when people can’t accept that different categories exist. It’s always “the word can actually be used both ways”. But that’s life

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Anonymous #6 9h

"people are stubborn dude, if someone says 1 + 1 = 3 what can you do? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯"

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Anonymous OP 9h

I mean yeah if someone says 1+1=3 you’re not gonna get them to admit they’re wrong

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