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Originally posted by rainmaker
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Originally posted by torpid123
I want to thank you both BigJoe, and ChuckElias, for you guy's insightful and helpful comments. And I'll try to keep the words within common colloquial (oops) language :-).
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Don't get too colloquial, it's kind of nice to see some real English on this board, once in a while!
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I'm not sure it's "real" English.
He used "colloquial" as a noun -- I think it's only an adjective.
And, he used parvenu (instead of parvenue, which is why I assume "he" in the previous statement) as an adjective instead of as a noun.