Talk:superstar

superstar
Adjective. I can't imagine it meeting any test for a true adjective. DCDuring TALK 01:00, 7 July 2011 (UTC)


 * Delete this POS. These "senses" merely describe attributive usages of the noun. · 05:50, 7 July 2011 (UTC)


 * Maybe RfV. A possible citation here, though the "more" looks italicised. — Pingkudimmi
 * Citations and other facts are allowed here. It is quite conceivable that there is some usage, preferably not in quotes, possibly in entertainment-oriented articles in News. DCDuring TALK 15:07, 7 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Citations and other facts are encouraged here! Pingku's citation ("The more superstar they are, they harder they are to get to because they're so protected by agents, bodyguards, managers, ") is interesting, because there "the more superstar they are" clearly means "the more they're superstars", such that superstar there means "being a superstar". That doesn't accord with either of our adjective senses, and it's hard to imagine anyone using superstar as an adjective with that sense in a more typical syntactic frame: *"she's superstar", *"she's so superstar", etc. ("She's superstar" does get one relevant-at-first-glance b.g.c. hit, but it's in "she's superstar enough to ", where I think other nouns work as well: "she's fool enough to ", "she's liar enough to ", etc.) So I'm inclined to chalk Pingku's citation up to speech error caused by complex syntax. Even after thinking about it, I don't know a great way to "fix" that quotation to not treat "superstar" as an adjective — I suppose "the more of a superstar they are", but it's awkward because the they there is a true plural they, not a singular they — so it's not surprising that the speaker failed. —Ruakh TALK 15:28, 7 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Perhaps "too&#124;very superstar" at News. "That dress is so superstar" seems plausible. DCDuring TALK 15:40, 7 July 2011 (UTC)
 * But not in the same sense as Pingku's citation. —Ruakh TALK 20:39, 7 July 2011 (UTC)
 * RFD failed, no supporting votes. — Ungoliant (Falai) 16:48, 12 August 2012 (UTC)