Even Greener Pastures

Quote from: NealC on June 13, 2019, 11:21:41 pm

I can't back it up with rules, but for me it would be natural for me to say he's vegan, he's a vegetarian, he's gay.

Ha! That's just what I was thinking. Vegan, a vegetarian, gay. Indefinite article in front of vegetarian, but not in front of the other two. I have no sensible explanation for this. I thought that maybe my non-native intuition was playing tricks on me. 

Your non-native intuition is in agreement with my non-native intuition, although I have been torn between "vegetarian" and "a vegetarian" at times but that was probably because I wouldn't say "a vegan" and I assumed they had to follow the same pattern. It's very strange indeed. Could it be because a vegetarian is less likely to be mocked for who they are? Just a thought.