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<offtopic> Kinda weird word sequence: absurdly great choice. In my view the word absurd has a negative effect on the phrase. Might be just poor old non-native E
by atmosx 13y ago
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Kinda weird word sequence: absurdly great choice. In my view the word absurd has a negative effect on the phrase. Might be just poor old non-native English speaker, me.
Absurd: wildly unreasonable, illogical, or inappropriate.
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Don't know the moderator personally but I wish him all the wisdom in the world, to drive HN to new heights :-)
- dsr_ 13y agoIt's the same sort of emphasis as "insanely great", "ridiculously awesome", or "wicked cool". These are linguistic constructions that cannot be parsed correctly without cultural context.
- oneeyedpigeon 13y agohttp://www.thefreedictionary.com/antiphrasis http://www.thefreedictionary.com/antiphrasis
- atmosx 13y agoThat's interesting, thanks.