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Onliest thing, he was using it as an example of mad used for very. you turning into some sort of prescrip, Faldage? You describe the language you have, not the language you wish you had. you got me there.
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I heard it used today. One of our younger nurses reported that a patient had a reaction to one of the meds and the resulting rash was "mad itchy."
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We hashed all this out in another thread, tho I don't think there was any "final answer" agreement, just as now. The real reason is that it continues to evolve. I have used it as "very", "extremely", "a lot", "a lot of", "many", "tons" etc. And when one student might correct my uso blanco, another will approve, so there's not even consensus amongst the originating users. I've noticed that most teenagers, regardless of all the PC categories, use, or at least understand, "mad skills/z", and even adults throw it in now and then... :0)
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Rather like the Orwellian "double plus," an all purpose intensifier for any grammatical situation.
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I mad liked the Orwellian "extra double-plus supergood"
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But who would say "double plus"? That's a whole extra syllable! It's "plus plus" for me.... ;0)
and that's mad plussy (please leave in the "l"...)
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This is all mad confusing???
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