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Find out why I'm not being insulting when I describe it as aweful.
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an obscure running joke uses ‘tremendous’ negatively due to a historical association with the ignore function
There’s also “ordinary” becoming used in a pejorative or negative rather than neutral.There's also the more fundamental element adjectives becoming ordinary so you start adding suffixes for emphasis and it just keeps going.
I thought it would be redundant as I have an article on that coming out soon as well, hint hint...@Thande how hard was it not to quote Pterry's "elves are terrific" bit?
And "fierce" in Norn Iron as an emphasis. "It's a fierce cold day" doesn't entirely depart from the original meaning but "It was fierce fun" or "They were giving the stuff away, the bargains were fierce". And then there was the visiting lecturer at Queens University who was needlessly alarmed to be told by a member of staff "There's a fierce crowd waiting for you in the lecture hall"When I was running a team across three continents I found the variety of OK equivalents fun, Australian "no worries" was familiar, but the Irish "savage", and of course our South African "sharp".
Bring a large enough refugee or settler population into a timeline you can get some lovely transplants...
And, to add to the confusion, that one is becoming 'generic positive' in African-American vernacular (I believe - maybe it's more specific than 'generic positive' as I've only heard it in passing).And "fierce" in Norn Iron as an emphasis. "It's a fierce cold day" doesn't entirely depart from the original meaning but "It was fierce fun" or "They were giving the stuff away, the bargains were fierce". And then there was the visiting lecturer at Queens University who was needlessly alarmed to be told by a member of staff "There's a fierce crowd waiting for you in the lecture hall"
I'd heard it in the second sense you use there, but never the first, when I heard @Meadow use it at an early meetup and was quite confused what he meant for a bit.A more crass example, "fuck off" being used as an expression of (positive) surprise (similar to "get out") or an adjective meaning something immense ("There's a fuck-off crowd out there.")