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Q: Very cool adverbs of emphasis in the spoken language

MohaThere are some adverbs of emphasis in the spoken language that I find really interesting. Examples : Badly , Awfully , Terribly = To a great degree. (I wanted it so badly.) , (It's not terribly common.) Royally = Utterly. (He screwed up royally.) Literally = Virtually. (He was literally m...

 
 
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3:14 PM
Aw, I like it that they think of some words as cool.
Everyone's gonna be like "OMG, they're using such cool words!" Ahh. Hahaha. I'm happy.
There should be a "cool" label in LDOCE. Maybe a warning, like "Watch out, this word is very cool!", and also "Are you sure you want to even see this word? It's kinda meh.".
@GWarner Thank you, that's very good.
@M.A.R. I can't help it.
 
 
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Anonymous
6:06 PM
@userr2684291 Lexical coolness sounds like a fun field of study.
 
AIQ
9:13 PM
@M.A.R. Since you have a great sense of humor, I will ask you this: Does it sound funny and awkward when two consecutive sentences have the same two words at the end?
 
 
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11:29 PM
Lol? Sounds oddly specific, and no, I'd say, but then again I'm no MAR, and I'm expecting a punchline regardless.
It's funny when you unintentionally make your sentences rhyme, and it's also awkward when they're about something serious.
@snailcar Cool words could be a hot topic.
@M.A.R. Did you know when your computer gets too hot, it sometimes freezes? It's an interesting phenomenon.
It was raining a couple days ago, and one of my uni buddies had an open window, and the rain was dripping on his extension cord, directly into the socket which his computer was plugged into. He told me it went boom, and he freaked out; the whole extension cord got fried somehow, but luckily his power adapter, or whatever it's called, sustained no damage.
He lives to fight another day.
 

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