Good job!

By Anonymous - This FML is from back in 2011 but it's good stuff - United States

Today, I had a job interview. The interviewer asked me to give 5 adjectives describing myself. I listed 7. The last one being "listener." FML
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Top comments

Should've thrown in an eighth and said "Ironic."

lol Perhaps you should have listened.

Comments

GentlemanXXX 0

In response to those who said listener is not an adjective look up the definition of one. A adjective is used to describe nouns, pronouns, direct objects, and object of the preposition. Listener is clearly describing op, so you all fail.

No, you raging dolt. A listener is defined as "one who listens." That's a noun. You want an adjective? How about "moronic," as in "your comment was moronic." If you want to call other people failures, don't be an even more massive failure yourself. Hypocrites piss me the **** off.

Yes, an adjective is something used to describe a person (etc). No, "listener" is not an adjective. Let me give you an example of an adjective, and then an example of an attempt to make "listener" an adjective. In the following sentence, "smart" is an adjective: She is a smart person. Now, let's try to make "listener" an adjective: She is a listener person. Does that look right to you? If so, we have a bigger problem than you trying to show up people with incorrect information.

GentlemanXXX 0

Lol you know what pisses me off people who are highly unintelligent. Ask google if a noun can be used as an adjective and vice versa. Context my friend its all about the context. :)

lindsaysue 4

Google says it, so it MUST be true!

GentlemanXXX 0

Hmm... well considering google can link you to several organizations websites that have a greater understanding of grammar then you and I, I would say yes. Google can be truthfull. B. Last time I checked my poor grammar didn't hinder you from understanding what I was trying to portray. Thanks.

theRovingMage 0

Yes, a noun can sometimes be an adjective. But not always, which is why you fail big time. If you want to check, use it in a sentence. If you can say, "a [suspect word] person", then your noun can be used as an adjective. Have you ever heard someone say they hired a listener person? If that's too unclear, try using it this way: "The person I hired is [suspect word]." If you feel the need to insert a/an before the suspect word, you're using a noun, not an adjective. Back to the OP: "The person I hired is listener" is totally wrong unless you put "a" before it. Therefore listener is exclusively a noun, not an adjective. All Google can do is lead you to the proverbial water. It can't make you read it, understand it, or use it correctly. P.S.: You use a bullet point "B" without having a bullet point "A". Also, if you're going to claim to understand grammar enough to argue a point, have correct grammar yourself.

RedPillSucks 31

This here is Amurika. We can bend nouns into verbs into adjectives and back into nouns again. Did I say that catagoricalizablisationally enough?

GentlemanXXX, I'm a bit on the fence about you. I can't decide if you're just a troll or if you really are as stupid as you portray yourself to be. If it's the former, shame on you. If it's the latter, you're yet another child left behind. My 8th grade English teacher would have an aneurism after reading your posts. lol

"Listener" is always used as a noun grammatically despite describing the person or thing it refers to. Some nouns can be used as adjectives, but it's usually things like proper names. "I have an Apple computer," uses the noun, Apple, as an adjective. Try doing it with with "listener." It doesn't work. It sounds like some of you weren't very attentive students. FYI "attentive" is a real adjective op could have used, but that obviously would be a lie.

Twitch304 0

over achiever should be one :)

Was overachiever one? Would have been a good save.

One should have been "grammar genius"