Help solve a adjective/noun disagreement

[JuntMonkey]

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That's the way he was originally using "assatall". "She's got an assatall booty".

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He doesn't know what he's talking about. "She's got a nice big butt booty."

And he really should be using "nassatall" more than "assatall", he's trying to pretend he made up "assatall" and that "nassatall" doesn't exist, and I don't like it one bit.

[gusmahler]

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I pointed out the sentence, "I have a widescreen". And this is where the confusion comes in. "Widescreen" describes the TV/Monitor/etc. But in that sentence does "widescreen" become a noun? Or does it remain an adjective? Or is this sentence even grammatically correct (my word editor doesn't give me a green squiggly line)? After 2 hours of searching yesterday and today, I still cannot find anything online to prove my friends wrong.

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Widescreen, properly used, is an adjective that modifies the term "monitor" or "TV" (e.g., "widescreen TV").

However, in the example sentence you made, you used widescreen as a synonym for "widescreen TV", in which case, you're using "widescreen "as a noun.

[SoloAJ]

JuntMonkey is correct on all terms.

And if your roommate was indeed saying "assatall booty" and claiming it was a noun, then he was wrong too, but for different reasons than you are confused about now.

[daryn]

words can be used as different parts of speech depending on the usage. clearly you have used assatall and widescreen as nouns.