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This quirk of dialect should be called the California Superlative. Everything is awesome, amazing, radical, insane, great, gnarly, not to mention sick, ill, ri
by samatman 5y ago
This quirk of dialect should be called the California Superlative.
Everything is awesome, amazing, radical, insane, great, gnarly, not to mention sick, ill, righteous, dope. Californians just love superlatives, use them constantly, wear them out, and need new ones.
This spreads like a fine coating of mold over the rest of the country before going on to annoy the Commonwealth, and then we repeat. It's pretty cool.
- dehrmann 5y agoConsidering this is Norcal, you forgot hella.
- samatman 5y agoGood point, and the place of hella in the dialect is hella distinctive, because it's a superlative modifier: hella sick, hella insane, "I just bought hella strawberries at the market", and so on. So you have a politeness continuum from very, to hecka, to hella, to fuckin'. Which is dank.