Funner vs More Fun

I don't know sh*t about the English language, but it's nice to see you back SCoates.

Not sure either, but nice to "meet" you.

Why not funnier? Is that so baddier?

I think it's gooder to say "more fun."

I think we should add "funner" to the English vocabulary. Every other langauge has a word equivelent to funner. Maybe it's because we are not fun people! Maybe we are too serious! Let's all lossen up and get funner!!!

HEY!!
nice to see you post again!!


it funner to see you?

I chime in: nice to see you again, SCoates!

My child used to say "funner" and "funnest" . Heck she even said once
"funnestest". A kids world is simple.

I'm not sure why funner is supposed to be wrong.


but if enough people use it long enough it will become a word.


just like eventually I'm conviced the language will evolve to include ain't as proper.

Scoates.




faints, waves fan.

Scoates, indeed.

Hey, stop back in when you have more time.

Waving at SCoates. Our English words are funnier than usual. <smile>

Re: Funner vs More Fun


It isn't incorrect, SCoates, it's simply unusual. Using 'fun' as a verb is also quite unusual save for "I'm just funning ya". We don't say, "I funned her"; "I often fun them".

Some collocations just aren't used much but as you noted that doesn't make them illogical.

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M-W online:
Main Entry: 3fun
Function: adjective
Inflected Form(s): sometimes fun·ner sometimes fun·nest
1 : providing entertainment, amusement, or enjoyment <a> <a>
2 : full of fun : PLEASANT <a> <have>

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AHD:

USAGE NOTE: The use of fun as an attributive adjective, as in a fun time, a fun place, probably originated in a playful reanalysis of the use of the word in sentences such as It is fun to ski, where fun has the syntactic function of adjectives such as amusing or enjoyable. The usage became popular in the 1950s and 1960s, though there is some evidence to suggest that it has 19th-century antecedents, but it can still raise eyebrows among traditionalists. The day may come when this usage is entirely unremarkable, but writers may want to avoid it in more formal contexts.

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These traditionalists have little concept of how language changes so they're always usually two or three generations [often much more] behind on how language works.