Comment on 7 years ago there were no billionaires worth more than $100 billion - today there are 18!

• bitjunkie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Dis pos rel’van to beltalowda intres

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• yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  How is space an adjective in the first one? Shouldn’t it be a noun?

  These Anglo-Saxons again, putting random spaces into compound words.

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  • KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I think it’s because it’s describing the noun.

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    • yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      It’s not describing the noun, it’s part of the noun.

      Quick analogy in German:

      space billionaire = Weltraummilliärdär

      spacefaring billionaire = weltraumreisender Milliärdär

      In German, adjective + noun cannot be written together to form a new noun. To form one, only noun + noun can be used. And English is close enough to Germanic languages for that rule to remain the same, I think.

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      • SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        You are correct. In English, when a noun is used to modify another noun (as an adjective does), it’s referred to as a noun adjunct, attributive noun, or, more rarely, an adjective noun. While it serves the purpose of an adjective, it’s still technically a noun.

        Examples are chicken soup, toy store, race car, boat lane, etc.

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      • phdepressed@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        To be clear it’s not about “spacefaring” billionaires but about “spacing” billionaires aka dumping them out an airlock into space as seen in various “The Expanse” scenes.

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  • bitjunkie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Nouns can be adjectives in Freedom Language™

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