Re:Ways to avoid using the word 'very'
by maw on Monday February 17, 2014 @12:55PM
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Where I grew up we used "wicked" as an intensifier, as in "he is wicked nice." Sound any better?
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Re:Ways to avoid using the word 'very'
by brightsize on Monday February 17, 2014 @01:52PM
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"Wicked" was extremely common in Vermont where I grew up, and I expect it still is. I sometimes find myself using it in everyday speech and it never seems to raise an eyebrow even out west here. "Friggin" is another word that I think is mostly a New England thing.
Where I am "friggin" has the context of a junior high kid who thinks it's a bad swear word, but doesn't quite have the nerve to say "fuck". So you don't generally hear it from people out of their teens.
That's New England dialect. Almost nobody says that outside of New England but people commonly know what it means.
It was used in Perth, AU when I was there ~15 years ago.
No, but im guessing you grew up in or near Boston?
Re:Ways to avoid using the word 'very'
by BlackDeath3 on Monday February 17, 2014 @01:12PM
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My first thought as well, but my knowledge of Boston doesn't extend much farther than Good Will Hunting, so...