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rjmill
10 months ago
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Defending adverbs exuberantly if conditionally
Can you give an example? I've never noticed that (except for certain specific dialects and slang) but I may be blind to it.
halper
10 months ago
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I hear it most often with "real": it is real bad, good or weird. The Offspring wants you bad.
colanderman
10 months ago
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Oh yes! This works with other intensifiers as well. "Crazy good", "wicked bad", "mad smart", etc. To my ears, eliding the -ly changes the meaning from the literal reading, to specifically the intensifier reading.
gadders
10 months ago
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