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 #2 (permalink) Sat Jun 27, 2009 12:29 pm Is it unfair to use 'unfair' as a verb? :) |
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| What planet is the dictionary from? :-D |
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Jamie (K)
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| #3 (permalink) Sat Jun 27, 2009 13:13 pm Is it unfair to use 'unfair' as a verb? :) |
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To use 'unfair' as verb is unfair,
To use it as an adjective is fair.
The dictionary you checked is fair,
That you make it a verb is unfair.
"Iraqi Shakespeare" :-) |
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| #4 (permalink) Sat Jun 27, 2009 15:49 pm Is it unfair to use 'unfair' as a verb? :) |
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| Jamie (K) wrote: |
| What planet is the dictionary from? :-D |
Ask Oxford says it is an adjective (and can take adverb and noun forms)
www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/unfair?view=uk
That is why I asked :)
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| #5 (permalink) Sat Jun 27, 2009 16:47 pm Is it unfair to use 'unfair' as a verb? :) |
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Hello
Unfair is just an adjactive and means: not fair; not honest; not impartial; disingenuous; marked by injustice or partiality or deception
Unfairly is an adverb
Unfairness is a noun |
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| #6 (permalink) Sat Jun 27, 2009 17:10 pm Is it unfair to use 'unfair' as a verb? :) |
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| Iraqi wrote: |
To use 'unfair' as verb is unfair,
To use it as an adjective is fair.
The dictionary you checked is fair
And for to make it a verb is unfair.
"Iraqi Shakespeare" :-) |
Yes, as I am reading, "Shakespeare coined an enormous number of the words and usages of words in the English language. The use of unfair as a verb seems one of them."
But the strange thing is that Ask Oxford doesn't say that it is a verb.
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| #7 (permalink) Sat Jun 27, 2009 17:19 pm Is it unfair to use 'unfair' as a verb? :) |
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| Murtican wrote: |
Hello
Unfair is just an adjactive and means: not fair; not honest; not impartial; disingenuous; marked by injustice or partiality or deception
Unfairly is an adverb
Unfairness is a noun |
Yes, I missed that :)
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| #8 (permalink) Sat Jun 27, 2009 18:03 pm Is it unfair to use 'unfair' as a verb? :) |
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Gray wrote:
"But the strange thing is that Ask Oxford doesn't say that it is a verb."
Not only this dictionary, many others like:
dictionary dot com
thefreedictionary dot com
answers dot com
and many others
Actually, I have never heard or read that "unfair" can be a verb. |
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