Twitter CEO fires two top executives, freezes hiring

Re:Twitter CEO fires two top executives, freezes hiring by samatman on Thursday May 12, 2022 @03:43PM (#31359300)

This quirk of dialect should be called the California Superlative.

Everything is awesome, amazing, radical, insane, great, gnarly, not to mention sick, ill, righteous, dope. Californians just love superlatives, use them constantly, wear them out, and need new ones.

This spreads like a fine coating of mold over the rest of the country before going on to annoy the Commonwealth, and then we repeat. It's pretty cool.

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Re:Twitter CEO fires two top executives, freezes hiring by dehrmann on Friday May 13, 2022 @12:47AM (#31363443)

Considering this is Norcal, you forgot hella.

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Re:Twitter CEO fires two top executives, freezes hiring by samatman on Friday May 13, 2022 @07:36AM (#31366115)

Good point, and the place of hella in the dialect is hella distinctive, because it's a superlative modifier: hella sick, hella insane, "I just bought hella strawberries at the market", and so on.

So you have a politeness continuum from very, to hecka, to hella, to fuckin'. Which is dank.

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