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Originally Posted by iota
^ I knew you were gonna ask for examples!
Ok, um, one that comes to mind (hardly the fittest) is "yellow coward". You know how people call others simply "yellow", or "yellah". So there. I know it's not the best, but there you go.
I guess if you were already familiar with the word "flippant", and now see it used unproperly, then you're probably right. But there's always room for exceptions.
WTF is a fibber, anyways?
C&H is beyond cool comic. BR is more a philosopher than a mathematician, but I like him as well!
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That use of "yellow/yellah" is still an adjective. You can
describe someone as yellow/stupid/flippant, but you can't call them
a yellow,
a stupid, or
a flippant.
If it
is the lyric here then it wouldn't be an exception, it would just be a grammatical error by Maynard.
A "fibber" is someone who fibs, tells lies. (I'm not convinced it is "fibbers" in the song. Sounds like "
flibbers" to me, but I know that's not a word!)
Yeah, C&H is the shit. Very philosophical too at times. BR wasn't a mathematician, though he was a logician and a philosopher
of mathematics. His writings on religion are very interesting, and I would definitely recommend them to any Toolfan.