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rendalltoday at 7:46 AM1 replyview on HN

I see your pedantry, and raise it one more!

Through substantivization one can definitely have stream-of-<adjective>. Think "a stream of blue" or "a stream of the poor".

People often shave off the tail of well-known expressions:

“same difference” → “same diff”

“no big deal” → “no big”

“It’s no big.”

“fair enough” → “fair”

“Fair.”

“good enough” → “good enough” → “good”

“Yeah, that’s good.” (implies good enough)

“I don’t know” → “dunno”


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latexrtoday at 9:50 AM

> People often shave off the tail of well-known expressions

Though typically not in writing, that’s more of a speech thing.