@lp0_on_fire@social.linux.pizza
2026-02-12 12:42 UTC
@davidrevoy@framapiaf.org, possibly, but it seems like a USA thing to me which is very much finding its way… seemingly everywhere else. Personally, if there's “super easy”, why not also “sub easy” (which badly needs a hyphen) and the like too…
https://www.vocabulary.com/articles/dictionary/its-an-adjective-its-an-adverb-its-super/
https://www.reddit.com/r/linguistics/comments/u5k4ta/american_english_anyone_notice_people_using_super/
and others (from search results for “origin of super instead of very”).
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@davidrevoy@framapiaf.org 2026-02-12 12:55
@lp0_on_fire@social.linux.pizza "super" is also an intensifier adjective in France for many decades. That's why probably it felt natural to me.