Can you get more funner than the funnest?
by Iain on February 1, 2007
I was bitching to Asi about how I think ‘fun’ is a rubbish word and massively overused in terms of describing interactive stuff: A ‘fun’ way to do your tax return, a ‘fun’ quiz for pet-owners, a ‘fun’ way of exploring genocide. It’s just such a rubbish nothing word.
So I fired up my Thesaurus widget just to see if it had any genius substitutions. It didn’t. But at the end of the definition I saw this:
So, we should never use the word ‘fun’ in documents (suits me just fine). But, according to Apple’s Thesaurus, I can use the terms funner and funnest in informal contexts (sparingly). So I’m going to…
2 comments
[...] This is going to be fun…funner…funnest! [...]
by Going away from the dust… at No Man’s Blog on 02/02/2007 at 3:15 pm. #
It’s very nice! I love what you wrote.
I think we can make friends.
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