• Thunderbird4@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    That usage always bugs the shit out of me, to the point that I had to refer back to English classes to figure out why. It is an adjective, but it is not a predicate adjective like it’s used here. It is an attributive adjective and has to be used in conjunction with the noun that it’s modifying.

    “She made good aesthetic choices.” -Yes

    “These flowers are aesthetic.” -No

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      6 days ago

      thank you for looking it up. i always fuck up adverbs and adjectives so there was no way i was pulling out attributive adjective.

      i just knew they were wrong and i was right. now if you don’t mind ive got some clouds at which i need to go shake my fist.

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      This isn’t a grammar issue but a semantic one: if you make an aesthetic choice, that choice is aesthetic