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Adjective or Noun?
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Adjective or Noun?
I find it drives me crazy when I see "atheist" used as an adjective. Like, "I'm atheist" instead of "I'm an atheist".

I'm pretty sure the word "atheist" is exclusively a noun, and "atheistic" would be the correlated adjective, but have things changed? Is "atheist" an acceptable adjective now?

It also drives me crazy when people capitalize "atheist" or "theist" in the middle of sentences without either being a part of a title, but that's a subject for another day.

Thoughts?
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Adjective or Noun? - by rexbeccarox - October 16, 2015 at 2:47 am
RE: Adjective or Noun? - by robvalue - October 16, 2015 at 2:49 am
RE: Adjective or Noun? - by Dystopia - October 16, 2015 at 3:50 am
RE: Adjective or Noun? - by Alex K - October 16, 2015 at 4:47 am
RE: Adjective or Noun? - by abaris - October 16, 2015 at 5:35 am
RE: Adjective or Noun? - by rexbeccarox - October 16, 2015 at 7:15 am
RE: Adjective or Noun? - by Edwardo Piet - October 16, 2015 at 7:23 am
RE: Adjective or Noun? - by Strider - October 16, 2015 at 8:07 am
RE: Adjective or Noun? - by Ben Davis - October 16, 2015 at 8:13 am
RE: Adjective or Noun? - by Edwardo Piet - October 16, 2015 at 8:15 am
RE: Adjective or Noun? - by Alex K - October 16, 2015 at 8:50 am

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