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Feb 19, 2009 · Springdale, AR. US, English. Feb 19, 2009. #2. Yes. You can say this sarcastically, so it is an insult, or you can say it sincerely, and it does mean that the person is funny. I would say that it is far more common to hear this particular phrase as a sarcastic or insulting comment, these days. P.
Apr 12, 2008 · When I was a kid, it was "funniest," but somewhere along the line they seem to have changed the rule, because now I hear "most funny" and "most happy" everywhere. 1) "That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard." 2) "That's the most stupid thing I've ever heard." I think most natives tend to pick #1.
Jan 25, 2019 · AchilleAndMedea said: I corrected her by saying that "he's a funny person". But a collegue of mine told me that "funny" can be used as an insult. I would not say that it is an insult, but it can be negative. One meaning of "funny" is "strange; weird; mentally abnormal." A: "Don't drink the water, it tastes funny."
Jul 26, 2010 · Jul 27, 2010. #2. Not everyone accepts fun as an adjective. See: Very fun? Fun as an adjective. make something more fun? See also: fun vs. funny.
Mar 18, 2018 · Mar 18, 2018. #2. It is, in riposte to "He wants to be funny, though." a way of saying thirsty people want water to drink, people in hell are very hot and presumably thirsty, and want ice water. In this usage, want could mean either "wishes to" or "lacks/does not succeed." The nationality of the speakers should give a clue.
Feb 22, 2014 · Feb 22, 2014. #1. 1. He is humorous. 2. He has a good sense of humor. I wonder which one is more commonly used. My guess would be the second one. Is it just because the first one is little more formal?
Feb 27, 2020 · Thanks. I just come up with several other ways to describe people who laugh easily. What do you think? -She laughs at anything funny. -She can’t resist anything funny. -She doesn’t have any resistance to any funny things. We're not likely to use the third, and if we did the second "any" would not be used.
Oct 5, 2005 · Sep 1, 2007. #7. I would say that both of these sound OK (and don't really mean anything different to my ear): Mr. D is funnier than he is scary or. Mr. D is more funny than scary. Mr. D funnier than scary sounds strange--it's too "compact" somehow. PS The general rule for comparative adjectives in English is that the suffix -er always is used ...
Apr 25, 2008 · Apr 27, 2008. #22. There is no real slang name for people from Köln or Stuttgart. They're just "Kölner" and "Stuttgarter". You could call people from Köln "Jäcken" refering to the famous "kölner Karneval" but that is actually also a name for anyone making stupid jokes, that is just usually used in the region of Köln.
Aug 26, 2015 · Aug 26, 2015. #1. She looked at me funny. The M-W Learner's Dictionary, which shows the above example sentence, classifies the "funny" as an adverb (definition: in an odd or strange way) So does our own WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English (definition: oddly; strangely; peculiarly: a stranger who talked funny).
