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Re:Defending Adverbs Exuberantly If Conditionally by rjmill on Friday June 06, 2025 @09:07AM (#44200461)
Can you give an example? I've never noticed that (except for certain specific dialects and slang) but I may be blind to it.
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Re:Defending Adverbs Exuberantly If Conditionally by gadders on Friday June 06, 2025 @10:43AM (#44201435)
"Think Different" "That went perfect" etc
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Re:Defending Adverbs Exuberantly If Conditionally by halper on Friday June 06, 2025 @09:18AM (#44200567)
I hear it most often with "real": it is real bad, good or weird. The Offspring wants you bad.
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Re:Defending Adverbs Exuberantly If Conditionally by colanderman on Friday June 06, 2025 @09:27AM (#44200676)
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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