On Fri, 12 Jun 2009, Alex Smith wrote: > On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 07:43 -0700, Kerim Aydin wrote: >> On Fri, 12 Jun 2009, Alex Smith wrote: >>> On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 07:23 -0700, Ed Murphy wrote: >>>> Rodlen wrote: >>>> >>>>> I CFJ on the following: >>>>> "What is forced by rule 2029 to Dance a Powerful Dance?" >>>> >>>> Ineffective, neither a statement nor a yes/no question. >>> >>> Shouldn't it be judged MALFORMED, then? Or can the CotC catch those >>> before they're assigned? >>> >>> Anyway, judicial precedent is that only Marvies (or possibly, 'ye >>> Marvy') is forced to do the dancing, and that Marvy has no rules-defined >>> or common-language definition. >> >> Neither does AGAINT. >> >> Among others, Maud is Marvy. "Marvies" is indeed a grammatical anathema. >> >> -G. >> >> ps. Maybe not the best reference (i.e. a good dictionary would give dialect >> origin, maybe the source does) but: http://www.yourdictionary.com/marvy. > > Ah; to me, the Town Fountain is a power-4 reference for insisting that > 'Marvy' must be a noun. CFJing on "'Marvy' is a noun" would probably be > IRRELEVANT, though, so I won't gum the judicial system up with that CFJ.
It's the same usage as "The Best and the Brightest" for example. Do those words become nouns our are they adjectives with the assumption that [people] is left off the end? In any case referring to multiple individuals with that trait would be "the marvy" [people] not "the marvies". -G.
