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		halper 9 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Defending adverbs exuberantly if conditionally I hear it most often with "real": it is real bad, good or weird. The Offspring wants you bad.

colanderman 9 months ago [–]

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.

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