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darnisha1@sh.itjust.works to A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.worldEnglish ·
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7 years ago there were no billionaires worth more than $100 billion - today there are 18!

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

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darnisha1@sh.itjust.works to A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.worldEnglish ·
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Billionaires 7 years ago:

https://web.archive.org/web/20171004002738/https://www.bloomberg.com/billionaires/

Billionaires today:

https://www.bloomberg.com/billionaires/

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    There was an article celebrating the fact that we’re on our way to having the first trillionare.

    I wanted to die. It’s so insanely fucking disgusting

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        Dis pos rel’van to beltalowda intres

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

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            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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              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 adjectival noun (the last almost exclusively refers to a similar usage in Japanese). While it serves the purpose of an adjective, it’s still technically a noun.

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

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              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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                That’s for the second one though, for the [verb] [noun] combination. The “[adjective]” [noun] combination implies spacefaring or similar, doesn’t it?

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                  You’ve convinced me.

                  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compound_(linguistics)

                  https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/spelling-using-compound-words-guide

                  Corrected

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                  Yes, correct.

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          Nouns can be adjectives in Freedom Language™

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      Why would you go around celebrating untreated and ignored mental illnesses?

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      On the other hand, if we all work really hard, go the extra mile, burn the midnight oil… we can make it happen faster for that special someone.

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      Look at all our WONDERFUL job creators amassing their dragon hoards!

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