Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months ago‘I walked out with a £150 trolley – it was so easy’: the rise of middle-class shopliftingwww.telegraph.co.ukexternal-linkmessage-square61fedilinkarrow-up1166arrow-down114
arrow-up1152arrow-down1external-link‘I walked out with a £150 trolley – it was so easy’: the rise of middle-class shopliftingwww.telegraph.co.ukLee Duna@lemmy.nz to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months agomessage-square61fedilink
minus-squareApplesauce@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·edit-29 months agoIn this context, ‘This’ is the adjective, as it describes the amount of Karens there are in this sentence. Karen is indeed the noun in this situation. An example of using ‘Karen’ as an adjective would be: ‘did you how so-and-so went completely Karen on that clerk?’ You visualize how so-and-so acted in a particular way towards the clerk. The adjective to describe the behavior was ‘Karen’. Hope that clears things up.
In this context, ‘This’ is the adjective, as it describes the amount of Karens there are in this sentence. Karen is indeed the noun in this situation.
An example of using ‘Karen’ as an adjective would be: ‘did you how so-and-so went completely Karen on that clerk?’
You visualize how so-and-so acted in a particular way towards the clerk. The adjective to describe the behavior was ‘Karen’.
Hope that clears things up.