... but man, is my neighborhood noisy!

[kadioguy]

story:
... As I was saying, I sometimes wake up before the alarm, usually because of some noise outside the house—a car door slamming, an alarm going off, gunfire—well, okay, not gunfire, but man, is my neighborhood noisy!

explanation of the story:
I then say, “Man, is my neighborhood noisy!” That expression, “man,” is just a way of expressing your emotion when you are saying something that you really mean or really want to emphasize. “Man, is my neighborhood noisy,” that means my neighborhood is very noisy.

(English as a Second Language Podcast –A Day in the Life of Jeff: Episode 1 – Getting Up )
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'Noisy' is an adjective, not an noun, so I think 'is my neighborhood noisy' ungrammatical.

What do you think?

 

[kadioguy]

It is fine in informal conversation. It is not uncommon to use an apparently negative form, with appropriate intonation, to express emphasis:

Wow, does that women talk!
Is his room a tip!
It has nothing to do with the parts of speech involved.

Pardon me, but what does 'an apparently negative form' mean?
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[FONT=Tahoma, Calibri, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif]Wow, does that women talk![/FONT]
[FONT=Tahoma, Calibri, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif]Is his room a tip!
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what does these two sentence mean? :-?

 

[kadioguy]

'Noisy' is an adjective, not an noun, so I think 'is my neighborhood noisy' ungrammatical.

What do you think?

I meant it should have been 'it is noisy. My neighborhood is noisy' or something.

 

[kadioguy]

I just found the following:

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Practical English Usage 3rd

195 exclamations: structures
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4. negative question forms

Isn't the weather nice!
Hasn't she grown!

Americans and some British speakers may use ordinary (non-negative) question forms in exclamations.

Boy, am I hungry!
Wow, did she make a mistake!
Was I furious!

 

[kadioguy]

Wow, does that women talk!
Is his room a tip!

what does these two sentence mean? :-?

Now I know [FONT=Tahoma, Calibri, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif]tip[/FONT] here means an untidy place.

But what does 'Wow, does that women talk!' mean?

What context do we use the sentence for?

 

[kadioguy]

Do you not understand what 'emphasis' means?

Well, I just don't know what 'Wow, does that women talk!' means.
I even don't know what 'Does that women talk?' means.

Why do we ask 'Does that women talk?'? :-|

 

[GoesStation]

The singular is woman.
Piscean mis-typed it in post #2.

 

[kadioguy]

Rubbish!

I just wanted to know whether anybody actually read my posts carefully, so I deliberately mis-spelt one word to see if anybody would notice.

That's my story, and I am sticking to it.

So GoesStation actually read your posts carefully. You should be happy, shouldn't you?

 

[bubbha]

Wow, does that women talk!

Wow, do those women talk!
Wow, does that woman talk!

 

[Rover_KE]

I just wanted to know whether anybody actually reads my posts carefully, so I deliberately mis-spelt one word to see if anybody would notice.

It's true ... he tests me on this all the time.:roll: I was at church yesterday morning.

 

[Tdol]

How about but, man, is my neighborhood noisy?

 

[GoesStation]

How about but, man, is my neighborhood noisy?

In this usage, man is an interjection. If you set it off with commas, the sentence reads as if you're addressing someone named "man".

One way to punctuate the sentence is But man! is my neighborhood noisy!