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Some might interpret that as meaning strong beer (or otherwise extreme - smokey-cheese-raspberry-shrimp stout anyone?). She's capable of drinking a lot of beer would be: she has mad beerage skillz. (^_^)
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And one may wonder how Alice's Mad Hatter became so mad.
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Well, in my dialect, a lot can be used by itself as in (2b).
2b. She drinks a lot. Mine, too.
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2z2. He mad cheats at cards. Nope. That's going too far (around here). Never heard it modifying a verb. Here are some I might with the same meaning: 1. He's a mad cheater at cards. 2. He cheats mad hard at cards. 3. He cheated mad times at cards. and the like.... Okay, okay on "a lot". (but I do like "Big Z"; maybe I'll make it oxymoronic as "Big z". Yeah. I like that!) ;0)
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2z2. He mad cheats at cards. Nope. That's going too far (around here). prescriptivist. :P
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[quote=zmjezhd Mad is a troublesome word. Many folks use it as a synonym for angry. This upsets some.
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I'm not sure why that would be though. In my Oxford dictionary, one of the definitions of mad is "angry" and in my Webster's, one of the definitions is "enraged".
I wonder what is the cut-off for acceptance of a modification of definition. If the modification happened in the 20th century, is it not as acceptable as if it happened in the 15th?
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Or it could've happened in the 15th century but the peevist never heard it till yesterday and assumed it was new. Happens all the time.
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And one may wonder how Alice's Mad Hatter became so mad.
High tea?
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And one may wonder how Alice's Mad Hatter became so mad.
High tea? Nope. Hatters (hat makers) were known to suffer neurological damage, and sometimes lose their lives, through exposure to the mercury used in treating the felt made for hats. :0)
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And one may wonder how Alice's Mad Hatter became so mad.
High tea? Nope. Hatters (hat makers) were known to suffer neurological damage, and sometimes lose their lives, through exposure to the mercury used in treating the felt made for hats. :0) Now that is interesting. I always wondered about that hat felt as opposed to felt used in other things. Thanks.
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