Re: na sa sou?

Paul Blay wrote:
> "Sean" <seanpantsholland@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote ...
>
>> I think I've probably said つまらなさそう but I'm more than willing to
>> believe that it is "wrong."
>> I googled them:
>>
>> つまらなさそう 13,900
>> つまらなそう　 44,600
>
>
> That's close enough that I don't expect "wrong vs right" but
> "context, strictness and/or personal taste".
> Now what I googled on was
> つまらなさそう つまらなそう 文法
>
> Nobody was saying つまらなそう is wrong but there's disagreement over
> whether つまらなさそう is wrong or not. What was more interesting was
> that there were several 'false positives' where the same person had used
> _both_ つまらなさそう and つまらなそう
> when writing.

It depends what "wrong" means. Is "ain't" wrong? "They invited I and
my wife to the reunion"? (I heard approximately this from my aged
`ukulele group leader this morning.) "I'll try and do it tonight"?

If "wrong" means a native speaker would be embarrassed to be caught
saying it, I bet つまらなさそう isn't wrong. (I'd be embarrassed, though.)

Bart
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