I would still qualify “space” as a noun here, but that’s if you accept these kinds of constructions as sequences of nouns rather than the zero-conversion of nouns into and adjectives.

I guess fashions come and go, but I never understood the appeal of that bright/flat, chalk/paper white color on nails.

It’s the localized update of a localized update of a localized update of a localized update to a social construct.

Aboitions are what prohibition-era goilfriends got for unwanted pregnancies.

Afaik, English grammar requires utterances with predicates to have a stressed element in those predicates. Contractions of only a subject and an auxiliary verb - ex: I am > I’m, he has > he’s, they will > they’ll - eliminate that independent auxiliary as a prosodic segment and violate that grammar.

A - “Who’s going to the store?”

B - “I am.” [ok] or “I’m going.” [ok] (or “I am going.”), but not “I’m.” [bad, obvs].

Good lord, he doesn’t know how to be discreet about anything. Every topic is a chance for him to try to show off. No one likes a braggart, and no one takes a transparent braggart seriously.

Wait a sec, wasn’t the majority of that land in the western states claimed by New Spain and then Mexico? How is the maker of this map qualifying “land of native nations”?