Linguistic doubt.

[Enrique]

Would some kind soul help me with these two sentences (the second one only to give the context)?

I never knew how much fun the sonatas are! I had to get a recording of the complete sonatas to discover it.

I want to express the sonatas represent a lot of fun for me and that this is a recent discovery. Is this correct English?
I'd like to begin the sentence with "I never", perhaps "I never realized", and use "how", as if saying "How wonderful the sonatas are", but this isn't the contents. And retain "fun". Too many constrains?

[Chris]

I think that sentence looks fine just as it is.

[Enrique]

Thanks a lot, Chris. I would never had guessed it was correct. The word "fun" always gives me trouble, may be because when a child I learned it was a noun but then, most of the times I hear it, it does not seem a noun!

[Chris]

It can be an adjective too! It's such a fun word!

[Roehre]

It can be an adjective too! It's such a fun word!

[PDG]

Fun is not an adjective - funny is.

[Enrique]

Fun is not an adjective - funny is.

But if it is not an adjective, what is it in "Fun is such a fun word" (second instance of the word)?

[PDG]

But if it is not an adjective, what is it in "Fun is such a fun word" (second instance of the word)?

Hi Enrique.

It is a mis-used noun. An 'accepted' modern Americanism, but quite wrong. It should be: Fun is such a funny word.

And don't even get me started on: "Can I get fries with that?"!

[Enrique]

And don't even get me started on: "Can I get fries with that?"!

Hi PDG.

You made me go to the Oxford dictionary to be able to understand your sentence: fry is a verb, which makes the construction absurd, even if it were in the past participle.

But then funny has degenerated from an hypothetical meaning of amusing to its present meaning of comical or that which makes laugh. So, after all, my confusion was justified. Is the town of Gosport on the coast?

[Sorrano]

Hi Enrique.

It is a mis-used noun. An 'accepted' modern Americanism, but quite wrong. It should be: Fun is such a funny word.

And don't even get me started on: "Can I get fries with that?"!

Awwww, but I wanted to have some fun with that word.

[Chris]

It is a mis-used noun. An 'accepted' modern Americanism, but quite wrong. It should be: Fun is such a funny word.

Fun is most definitely not a funny word. But it is a fun word!

[Joy]

Hi Enrique.

It is a mis-used noun. An 'accepted' modern Americanism, but quite wrong. It should be: Fun is such a funny word.

And don't even get me started on: "Can I get fries with that?"!

Are you perhaps referring to me? If so, that is so funny! There I go again being so American!

[Enrique]

At last I could know what is Chris' country! The same as Sorrano's, undoubtedly.

[Sorrano]

At last I could know what is Chris' country! The same as Sorrano's, undoubtedly.

Si.

[Chris]

I thought I had in my profile that I was from the USA, but it doesn't seem to be there. Hm.